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In and Around CRAVEN ARMS River Onny Railway Station Bus DAYS OUT 2 Craven Arms B4368 DAYS OUT 2 Craven Arms DAYS OUT 2 Craven Arms CRAVEN ARMS Stop Before theBus coming of the railway around 1853, You’ll find an array of shops in Craven Arms including an the CravenStop Arms Inn stood alone at this important excellent butcher’s, bakery, cafes, pubs and takeaways, along Walking with Offa Land of with a supermarket, post office, bank and cash point. cross-roads. There wasLost no Contenttown. Yet within 50 years B4368 it was thriving with Marketlivestock St markets and small CLOSE TO CRAVEN ARMS DAYS OUT industries. This is the nearest Shropshire comes • Acton Scott Historic Working Farm – experience daily to a Wild West township.Newton The Sheep Tracks life on a Victorian Farm sculpture in the square celebrates the twin sources • Stokesay Court – setting for the film Atonement • Clun Castle – explore these medieval ruins at the heart of Clun of the town’s growth. • Flounders Folly – 80ft tower built by Benjamin Craven Arms is the starting pointShropshire for lots Hills of Flounders in 1838 different walks, details of whichDiscovery can Centrebe found at the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre. GETTING THERE: You can find public transport options Onny MeadowRiver Onny throughout Shropshire - www.traveshropshire.co.uk. Or contact Traveline on 08712 002233. Railway Station BY TRAIN: Craven Arms is a stop on the regular Cardiff to Bus B4368 CRAVEN ARMS Stop Manchester train service. It is also a stop on the Heart of Bus A49 Wales, one of the most scenic lines in Britain, Stop Land of www.heart-of-wales.co.uk. Shropshire Way Lost Content B4368 Market St BY BUS: 435 Shrewsbury – Ludlow service. Newton BY CAR: Free long stay car park, Corvedale Road, SY7 9ND Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre Stokesay w Walking with Offa Promoting the Welsh English Church g it in h k O Onny l border as a great place to get your boots on, enjoy a f Meadow f a W the beautiful countryside and indulge in some in and around fabulous food and drink. For more details contact the Shropshire Hills Area of A49Stokesay Castle Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership on 01588 674080 CRAVEN ARMS Shropshire Way or see www.shropshirehillsaonb.co.uk A series of 18 Walking with Offa waymarked pub walks guides, podcasts and the four Days Discover the secrets and hidden gems of Walk Route Stokesay Church Out in the Shropshire Hills are downloadable ‘The Arms’. Allow three to four hours with Public Footpath from www.shropshirewalking.co.uk/ Bus/Coach Stop walking-with-offa around two miles of leisurely walking, Stokesay Tourist Castle along the River Onny to Stokesay Castle. Information Railway Station The Welsh English Border – Walk Route Parking Public Footpath Shropshire Hills where King Offa met his match! Bus/Coach Stop Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Toilets Tourist Information This project has been supported by Advantage West Midlands’ Picnic Area Railway Station Natural Assets Programme in partnership with Natural England. in the Shropshire Hills Parking Toilets Picnic Area Walking with Offa 2 In and around DAYS OUT CRAVEN ARMS Stokesay Castle Market Street This magnificent fortified (Vintage Quarter) medieval manor was built This conservation by Lawrence of Ludlow, the area is noted for greatest wool merchant of his its Victorian architecture, a mixture of shop frontages and brick terraced houses. day. Information and audio CIRCULAR WALK In the former Victorian Market Hall you will find The tour available from English Land of Lost Content, the National Museum of British along the River Onny to Stokesay Castle. Heritage gift shop. Start from the Discovery Centre. Popular Culture. Inside is a 40-year collection of 20th Café within the castle century memorabilia, oozing with nostalgia: costume, Follow the surfaced path into Onny Meadows, and gardens. Entrance fee applies. food and drink, schooldays, holidays, film, TV, radio and at the Y-fork turn left. Pass through a gate, then Open all year, but not daily. much more. Open daily except Wednesdays. Closed through a second and bear right and around the For details contact 01588 672544 or December and January. Entrance fee. Contact 01588 ‘oxbow’ pools. Enter some trees and turn right at www.english-heritage.org.uk. 676176 www.lolc.org.uk. a fence to emerge into a field. Turn left but leave the track at the corner and bear left round the pool The country route home includes some stiles and can The original settlement was the hamlet of Newton and over a wooden bridge. On reaching a fence, be wet and muddy in places. At the end of Market Street turn left (opposite Stokesay turn right and continue on the track with a fence Exit the churchyard via a gate opposite Stokesay Castle Hotel) and then right into Newton. The timber on your right and on to meet the River. With a Castle car park. Turn left and take metal gate on frame and stone buildings date back to medieval times. wooden gate in front of you, turn right up the path. right, before the pond. Follow track under railway Turn right at the bottom of Newton and continue ahead through a wooden gate and into Onny Meadows Where the track bends right, bear left up to a metal and then immediately right. Follow railway line a and the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre. gate and exit though a kissing gate. short distance and on reaching hedge bear left and follow boundary up this long open field. Cross Carefully cross the main road and head left towards Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre Stokesay Castle. Turn right into the lane and walk another stile by a gate and continue up still keeping A visit to the Secret Hills exhibition will reveal some up to Stokesay Church, through the lych gate and the boundary to your right. Cross the stile on the of the stories hidden in the landscape. Meet the into the churchyard. right by a fingerpost for ‘Three Woods Walk’. Keep mammoth, look inside an Iron Age roundhouse and River Onny to the right boundary down the field (views left of enjoy the panoramic hot air balloon film. Entrance fee Look out for otters, shy creatures, but you may be the Long Mynd and Stretton Hills) to a gate/stile and applies for exhibition, but you are welcome to pop into lucky enough to spot one, or the flash of brilliant join an enclosed track. Follow the track under the the Centre where you will colour of a kingfisher. railway and on to minor road, shortly to take a path find Visitor Information, gift shop, café and Stokesay Church on the left to join the main road. Turn left and cross the road at the pedestrian crossing, then turn right gallery, and free Wi-Fi Just before the lych gate on the right you will see and Internet access. towards the Discovery Centre and end of the walk. a stone mounting block, a reminder of the more Farmers’ Market: tranquil times when people came to church on By the pond you are greeted in summer by the 1st Saturday of each horseback. The church was built about 1150 as a swallows. For hundreds of years they have made month. Visitor Information: chapel to Stokesay Castle. By the hedge you’ll find their nests in the castle from the mud by the pond, 01588 676060. the war memorial ‘Old Bill’, who once stood to which once topped up the moat, now filled in attention in Craven Arms but was moved here to February with snowdrops. make way for the traffic. www.shropshirehillsdiscoverycentre.co.uk © Crown copyright and database rights 2011 Ordnance Survey 100049049 You are not permitted to copy, sub-licence, distribute or sell any of this data to third parties in any form..
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