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The 10 Best Historic Sites in Shropshire, England
Discover the best top things to do in Shropshire, United Kingdom including St Winifred's Well, Coleham Pumping Station, Stokesay Castle, Longner Hall, Attingham Park, Shrewsbury Abbey, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, St Laurence's Church, Hawkstone Park Follies, Wroxeter Roman City.
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1. St Winifred's Well
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
This tiny building is a miraculous survival, a medieval well chapel. It is built above an ancient and venerated spring that feeds three linked pools, and that is still flowing today. St Winifred's Well can be booked for short breaks with the Landmark Trust, a charity that restores historic buildings at risk and makes them available for holidays.
2. Coleham Pumping Station
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5.0 based on 23 reviews
Preserved Victorian steam operated sewage pumping station with original equipment preserved and still working. Also smaller machinery such as water pumps, stationary engines and generators.
3. Stokesay Castle
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4.5 based on 1,102 reviews
Reviewed By oliviag700 - London, United Kingdom
Such a wonderful find with so much history. There is parking and an amazing gift shop and tea room, that serves apple crumble with the apples that grow on the trees in the moat!! Really beautiful place and the volunteers very knowledgeable and friendly. All Covid regulations are followed bee carefully
4. Longner Hall
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4.5 based on 2 reviews
5. Attingham Park
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4.5 based on 2,302 reviews
This 18th-century home contains one of the most complete surviving collections of Regency style.
Reviewed By Mobile35942195053 - Bristol, United Kingdom
Arrived early on the Bank Holiday Monday to get some good walking in. Plenty of parking, very friendly welcome and helpful volunteers in which I was given a map of the estate and away I went. The walks are easy to follow, loved the deer park walk and you can get very close to the deer, beautiful walk along the river with fantastic views back to the mansion and an impressive walled garden. I didn't have time to visit the house on this occasion(will do so next summer when I'm on vacation nearby), the house opens at 11am. Beautiful place, wonderful story, given to the NT in 1947 by the dutiful 8th Lord Berwick and lady Teresa. Very good NT facilities and excellent guide book to accompany any visit. Excellent work with respect to the swallow nest boxes provided for these most majestic birds, well done to NT for this.
6. Shrewsbury Abbey
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4.5 based on 340 reviews
Reviewed By Warehamchick
Fantastic visit, very friendly guides, lovely to walk around in peace well worth a visit picturesque
7. Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
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4.5 based on 539 reviews
Located in the old Victorian Music Hall and 13th Century Vaughan's Mansion, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery offers a family friendly museum experience that brings to life the Roman, Medieval, Tudor and Stuart eras as well as sharing some of the most prominent local history in our Shropshire gallery. These tell the story of Shrewsbury and Shropshire from pre-history to the modern day. As well as it's five main galleries, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery also has a temporary exhibition gallery. Making this gallery its' home until Sunday 17 September is Antarctica: Life in a hostile land which allows you to explore the amazing human relationship with the most hostile continent on earth through Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain Scott mementos, virtual reality at Halley VI in Antarctica and much, much more! Accessible to all, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery is able to illuminate your senses through displaying local and national heritage in a wide range of exciting ways. Fine art from the collections has been included throughout the galleries. Facilities include a café, Museum shop and Visitor Information Centre.
Reviewed By nastynick540 - Telford, United Kingdom
Although ‘locals’ we had never visited the museum before so decided to go today before the end of the Lego exhibition currently displaying in the museum. One off entrance fee of £4.50 per adult (you can buy a yearly pass if you wish for £25 if memory serves me correctly). Lego exhibition was good depicting various moments in history. The museum itself takes you through time from Iron Age through to Tudor times and a section focusing on when the Roman’s were in occupancy. Some interesting exhibits and loved seeing the old paintings/mockups of how Shrewsbury and the surrounding areas looked back in time. We spent around 1 1/2 hours there (although you could spend longer) and enjoyed our visit. Also the staff were friendly and welcoming. We also ate in the ‘Stop’ cafe which although not cheap did serve very nice coffee and cakes, gluten free option of orange and chocolate polenta for my wife and coffee cake for me. Well worth a visit if you want to find out more of the history of Shrewsbury.
8. St Laurence's Church
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4.5 based on 803 reviews
'The Cathedral of the Marches' 'Very fayre and large and richly adorned and taken for the fairest in all these quarters.' John Leyland One of only 18 churches given a FIVE STAR rating by Simon Jenkins in England's Thousand Best Churches.
Reviewed By Brutons2020
Beautiful architecture and very good Church Gift Shop Well worth a visit and so easy to find as its right in the centre of the town
9. Hawkstone Park Follies
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4.5 based on 967 reviews
100 acres of stunning scenery filled with magical Follies around every corner. One of Britain's original theme parks, this fantasy landscape full of bridges, towers and caves has been inspiring visitors for over 250 years.
Reviewed By wbaste - Kingswinford, United Kingdom
Been to the Santa Safari today with my wife and our 2 boys 7 & 4. Can honestly say it’s the best Santa we’ve been to see and the whole experience was superb. We were a bit worried after reading bad reviews but I can honestly say I couldn’t fault a thing. Upon arrival at the hotel we went into a Christmas theme room with hot chocolate to have. We then went up to the caves in a 4x4 land rover which was very cool. Once at the caves we were met by friendly elves who told us where to go and explained the Covid rules. The caves were great, very well decorated for lots of photo opportunities. When we got to see Santa me and my wife were amazed how good he looked. With a real white beard and a friendly smile he was superb with the kids. Spent a good 5 minutes asking them questions and making them laugh. The boys were given an avengers soft toy as a gift (better than a lot for the cheap rubbish we’ve had in the past) You then leave the caves to stunning views before being taken back to the hotel in a 4x4. Honestly couldn’t fault a single thing! Well done to everyone involved you really have made Christmas week feel magical.
10. Wroxeter Roman City
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4.5 based on 383 reviews
Reviewed By DafyddM - Sheffield, United Kingdom
A superb site, well excavated and preserved by English Heritage, a fantastic ,monument to the Romano-British people who built this glorious town right next to Watling Street, and the later preservationists who constructed the current re-production villa. There is a tremendous amount of knowledge and insight gone in to Viriconium Cornoviorum (the old name, you understand), and a great deal of skill in preserving what is left, interpreting it and putting it in to context. Hats off to the young lady interpreters, who had packs of ravening shoolkids eating out ot their hands, particularly about the toilet facilities. I thought that I knew all that there is to know about the Xylospongium (look it up, I had to), but I found out more than I ever thought that I would need to know. I fell totally, deeply, inexorably and unremittingly in love with this place, and the thought provoking history that surrounds it. Well worth a day out. Get out yer Denarii!!!
