A Christmas market in The Square, Shrewsbury. Markets are held throughout the year here.
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A costumed guide shows a group around Oswestry, Shropshire's historic border town.
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Explore Wyle Cop in Shrewsbury with its many varied independent shops and eateries.
Take a stroll through the grounds of Shrewsbury Castle and the Shropshire Regimental museum.
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Stokesay castle is one of the finest moated manor houses in England and 1 of Shropshire's 32 castles.
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A statue of Charles Darwin outside Shrewsbury Library. Darwin is the town's most famous son and celebrates his 200th birthday this year.
A group explore the World heritage site of Ironbridge, birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and home to 10 museums celebrating Shropshire's industrial heritage.
The Dingle is in the Quarry Park, Shrewsbury. Percy Thrower, former Blue Peter gardener used to tend to the flowers here!
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THE WAY WE USED TO LIVE
Morning
Steam into Shropshire on the Severn Valley Railway (01299 403816). Sixteen miles of nostalgia through glorious countryside. Board the train at Kidderminster or Bewdley.
Kidderminster/Bridgnorth, 1 hr 10 mins on steam train, Bewdley/Bridgnorth, 55 mins on the steam train
Arrive in Bridgnorth your groups can wander around this fine hilltop town maybe including a trip on England's oldest and steepest funicular railway (01746 762124) or visit the Cartway, an ancient route between the High Town and Low Town and the river. They can marvel at the castle which out-leans the Tower of Pisa.
Lunch
Plenty of places for people to lunch independently in Bridgnorth.
Afternoon
Bridgnorth/Daniel's Mill (Signposted 1/2 mile from junction of B4555 to Highley and B4363 to Cleobury Mortimer - 3/4 mile).
Visit Daniel's Mill (01746 762753). In an idyllic setting
in a deep wooded valley, Daniel's Mill is virtually unaltered
since the eighteenth century. Groups can see wheat being turned
into flour the traditional way. The waterwheel is the largest
in England still powering a working cornmill. Displays of
country and domestic bygones complete an experience of yesteryear.
or
Bridgnorth/Blists
Hill Museum. A442 to Madeley, signed Ironbridge
Gorge Museums - 10 miles)
Blists Hill Museum (Group Visits Advisor 01952 433522). One of the museums of the Ironbridge Gorge, a World Heritage site, Blists Hill is a working Victorian town. Costumed nineteenth century people go about their daily business - making candles, baking bread, casting iron. Visitors can change twenty-first century money into Victorian shillings and pence to spend in the shops or in the New Inn where a pint of beer will cost four pence and three farthings.