Villages & Resorts in Shropshire

Clunton and Clunbury, Clungunford and Clun..... ~ Are the quietest places under the sun..... ~ These opening words in the titles are from the poem from A.E Housman, and in many ways they still sum up some areas of South Shropshire, which is the area I'm going to review here. I'm a Shropshire lass. I wasn't born in the county, but my mother was (in a small cottage just outside of the market town of Bishops Castle) and while we didn't settle back to the area until I was 10 years old, it's always been home. Many of my family on my mother's side still live in and around the area and I only moved away in the last few years. So this ...

I was born and brought up in a village close to Oswestry, a North 'Shropshire Lad' you might say and I thought I might tell you about this unspoilt and hidden part of the country. Whilst Shropshire, the largest inland county in the UK is in itself a beautiful part of the country to live in, it remains relatively anonymous and most people when Shropshire's mentioned think of Shrewsbury, Telford and Ludlow which are all in, or towards the south of the country. Oswestry is situated in the north of the county close to the border with Wales. So close that in some ways it is more welsh than some of the towns and villages on the other side of the ...

Much Wenlock is a few miles outside of Shrewsbury and a great afternoon out. There are many ways to enjoy yourself, here are the best - 1, Wenlock Edge - this is a geographical oddity, a limestone rift which extends from Church Stretton right to Much Wenlock itself. Lots of paths run along the edge offering great views of the county. 2, the Olympics - go to the town museum and learn about the history of the Much Wenlock Olympics, an event which inspired the modern day Olympics when Baron Pierre de Coubertin discovered them in the late 19th century. 3, Wenlock Priory, take a walk round the Priory which inspired scenes in the Brother Cadfael novels. ...