SHROPSHIRE (England)

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Shropshire is a county situated in the West Midland parts of England and borders Wales. The county town of Shrewsbury, birthplace of Charles Darwin, is a stunning historic town with well over 600 listed buildings to admire and explore. Some of the local attractions include Shrewsbury Abbey, this ancient and yet magnificent Abbey is ranked second only to Canterbury as a favourite destination for pilgrims, Shrewsbury Castle, with its fascinating Regimental Museum and delightful gardens and Rowley's House Museum, which is housed within a timber-framed warehouse and has an adjoining 17th century brick mansion. Other main towns within the county are Ludlow, Oswestry and Telford all of which hold their own individual historical treasures well known to Shropshire, probably the most notable being the archaeological wonder of 'ironbridge'.

Shropshire has been pleasing guests ever since the Roman invasion, for almost as soon as they'd landed, those clever Romans began to build a road to our fair county. As Shropshire had no obvious military significance, we can only assume that this was to allow their legions - exhausted by all those conquests - to get some decent R&R.

It's a tradition that continues to this day, from the famous Ironbridge , near Telford , to Medieval Shrewsbury , from gourmet Ludlow to Oswestry , from those Blue Remembered Hills of South Shropshire to the Meres, Mosses and canals of North Shropshire and it explains why Shropshire's accommodation wins more than its fair share of awards, stars, rosettes and knives-and-forks.

Shropshire is bursting with things to do , in our award winning attractions , such as the Ironbridge Gorge Museums , Hawkstone Park and Follies and the Severn Valley Railway . Then there's our Shropshire Gardens as well as our walking , cycling , riding , golf , fishing , hot-air ballooning , and cruising our canals & rivers. Phew!, and there's good news for shopaholics, retail therapy awaits in the kind of independent shops that many counties let go of years ago...

Shropshire has so many events to delight and amuse. There are nostalgic trips on the Severn Valley Railway , and perhaps a touch of time-travelling at the Ironbridge Gorge Museums . Of course Shrewsbury holds the internationally famous annual Shrewsbury Flower Show , which has been running every August since 1887. Shrewsbury is a pretty floral place most of the time, but the flower show is your chance to see more than 3 million blooms in one go - with lots of other entertainment besides.