EXPLORE SHROPSHIRE: HISTORIC SHROPSHIRE

Much Wenlock developed around the large Cluniac Priory. The town is made up of a small network of intricate, narrow streets lined with timber-framed black and white buildings. The town forms an excellent base to explore the delights of historic shropshire.

Shropshire has a host of historic attractions from the amazing Roman city of Wroxeter, (the fourth largest Roman settlement in Britain), to the incredible Hawkstone Park and Follies which was created in the 18th Century by the Hill family. Hawkstone follies is a historic parkland that covers 100 acres. Intricate pathways, ravines, arches and bridges, the towering cliffs and follies.

You can visit a number of National Trust properties including Wilderhope Manor, a beautiful Elizabethan manor house, Attingham Park or Benthall Hall. If that's not enough there are more than a dozen English Heritage sites such as the castles at Clun and Stokesay. English Heritage claim that Stokesay is "simply the finest and best preserved fortified medieval manor house in England".

There are any number of beautiful towns and villages including the market town of Bridgnorth which Charles 1st said “offered the finest view in all his Kingdom”. John Betjeman agreed that Ludlow, with it's castle and church and the Medieval and Georgian buildings fill the historic town centre, was the finest Georgian towns in Britain. Then there is Shrewsbury, with its host of historic buildings including the Abbey, Castle and Museum.

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