Create Your Own Family Memories in Shropshire!
Enjoying a day out with the family can be fun - No, really!
All it takes is a bit of inspiration and a little planning. Those clever people at Shropshire Tourism have built this website to help you find some entertaining and inspiring things that you and the family can all enjoy together in Shropshire. After all sharing quality time together and having fun is what family life is all about.
So whether you want the great outdoors (or even the great indoors), to learn something new, get hands on involvement or just to stand back, watch and gasp, Shropshire has the full range of attractions to suit. It's all presented in an easy to follow format so planning is easy too.
All you have to do next is come and visit.
Whether you want the great outdoors (or even the great indoors), to learn something new, get hands-on involvement or just to stand back, watch and gasp, Shropshire has it all.
As you would expect from one of England's finest unspoilt counties, we have plenty of countryside and wildlife sites to explore, picnic places to enjoy and more than our fair share of delightful gardens and nurseries to discover.
We also have well over 32 castles and stately piles, market towns that were once the seats of Kings, and numerous myths and legends to follow. All of which gives Shropshire an enviable heritage.
So, say goodbye to the rat-race, come to get some fresh clean air and spend a little quality time discovering Shropshire. All you have to do next is decide what to go and see first.
Gardens Galore!
"Such Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful' and sitting in the shade" Rudyard Kipling
In Shropshire you'll find a trug-full of famous bloomers, there are plantsman's gardens, ornamental and water-gardens, nurseries and wooded walks; blooming gardens full of classic English spring and summer flowers and landscapes touched by capability Brown and Gertrude Jekyll.
Shropshire's gardens are not to be sniffed at (oh yes they are!)
Historic Piles
PG Wodehouse described Shropshire as "the nearest earthly place to paradise" and he knew a thing or two. He wisely set Blandings Castle in this neck of the woods - at Weston Park to be precise. But then he could have justifiably chosen a number of equally suitable properties. You only have to look at Attingham Park or the majesty of Powis Castle to make a case.
But it's not all grand houses - we also have more than our fair share of listed buildings with black and white 'magpie' cottages, stone keeps and over 30 castles.
Fun Time!
It's difficult to imagine that somewhere so unspoilt could have been the birthplace for all things industrial but nevertheless Shropshire (or more accurately Ironbridge) was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
Ironbridge is now a World Heritage Site with 10 hands-on museums plenty to keep everyone amused and entertained. If transport is your thing there are steam railways and for modernists the RAF Museum at Cosford houses "the last of the few".
How diverse can we get? Well, if you've ever wondered what's in a nuclear bunker or had a burning wish to see sheep racing, want to discover a kingdom of follies or see more farm attractions than you can shake a cruck at, then Shropshire's the place.
