DESTINATION SHROPSHIRE

Shropshire is one of England's most rural and sparsely populated counties. The county town is Shrewsbury, which is culturally and historically important, although Telford, which was constructed around a number of older towns is today the most populous. The Ironbridge Gorge area of Shropshire is known as the birthplace of industry and there are other notable industrial sites located around the county.

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DISCOVER SHROPSHIRE: Attingham Park, Blists Hill, Bridgnorth, Bridgnorth Castle, Clun Castle, Hopton Castle, Ludlow, Ludlow Castle, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury Abbey, Shrewsbury Castle, Stokesay Castle,

ATTINGHAM PARK Attingham Park is a country house in Shropshire, England, which is owned by the National Trust. It is a Grade I listed building. It is located near to the village of Atcham, on the B4380 Shrewsbury to Wellington road. The park was landscaped by Humphry Repton and includes woodlands and a deer park ...

BLISTS HILL Blists Hill is an open air museum, one of ten museums operated by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, built on a former industrial complex located in the Madeley area of Telford, Shropshire, England. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian Shropshire town ...

DISCOVER BRIDGNORTH After the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror granted the manor of Bridgnorth to Roger de Montgomerie. The town itself was not created until 1101, when Robert de Belesme, the son of Roger de Montgomerie, moved from Quatford, constructing a castle and church on the site of the modern-day town ...

BRIDGNORTH CASTLE Bridgnorth Castle is in the town of Bridgnorth, Shropshire beside the River Severn. The castle was founded in 1101 by Robert de Belleme, the son of the French Earl, Roger de Montgomery, who succeeded his father to become the Earl of Shrewsbury. Its principal feature, a square great tower, was built during the reign of Henry II ...

CLUN CASTLE Clun Castle is a ruined castle in the small town of Clun, Shropshire. It is owned by the Duke of Norfolk (who also holds the title of Baron Clun) and is managed by English Heritage. The castle was originally established by Robert Picot de Say, an early Norman baron ...

HOPTON CASTLE Hopton Castle is situated in the village of the same name which lies approximately half way between Knighton and Craven Arms, in the English county of Shropshire. It would seem likely that the castle was founded in the 12th century as a motte and bailey by one of the Hoptons as a mesne lord of the Says of Clun Castle ...

DISCOVER LUDLOW Ludlow has nearly 500 listed buildings. They include some fine examples of medieval and Tudor-style half-timbered buildings including the Feathers Hotel. The parish church, St Laurence Church, is the largest in the county. The town is close to Wales and also very close to the county border ...

LUDLOW CASTLE Ludlow Castle is a large, now partly ruined, non-inhabited castle which dominates the town of Ludlow in Shropshire, England. It stands on a high point overlooking the River Teme. The castle is owned by The Trustees of the Powis Castle Estate on behalf of the family of the Earl of Powis, and is open to the public ...

DISCOVER OSWESTRY Oswestry is a town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, close to the Welsh border. It is at the junction of the A5, A483, and A495 roads. The area has long been settled. Old Oswestry is the site of a large Iron Age hill fort with evidence of occupation dating back to the 550s BC ...

DISCOVER SHREWSBURY Shrewsbury is a historic market town with the town centre having a largely unaltered medieval street plan. The town features over 660 historic listed buildings, including several examples of timber framing from the 15th and 16th century ...

SHREWSBURY ABBEY The Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, commonly known as Shrewsbury Abbey, was a Benedictine monastery founded in 1083 by the Norman Earl of Shrewsbury, Roger de Montgomery, in Shrewsbury, the county town of Shropshire, England ...

SHREWSBURY CASTLE Shrewsbury Castle is a red sandstone castle in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Its location is on a hill situated on the neck of the meander of the River Severn which the town originally grew up in. The castle is situated directly above Shrewsbury railway station ...

STOKESAY CASTLE Stokesay Castle, located at Stokesay, a mile south of the town of Craven Arms, in South Shropshire, is the oldest fortified manor house in England, dating to the 12th century. It is currently in the hands of English Heritage. It is a Grade I listed building. The origins of this Stoke, or dairy farm, go back to the Conquest ...

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