Places to explore near Shrewsbury

Timber-framed medieval town in a Severn loop.

0.7 km E

Ditherington Flax Mill, built 1796–1800, the world's first iron-framed building and so an ancestor of the skyscraper, later a maltings and now restored.

1.5 km NE

Grand Regency mansion in a Repton deer park.

6.4 km SE

Viroconium — one of Roman Britain's great cities.

8.7 km SE

Heather ridges and rocky tops rising over the Welsh border, from the Long Mynd's plateau to the Wrekin's landmark cone

9 km SW

Craggy volcanic hill and nature reserve above Pontesbury, the county's first-ever nature reserve with steep valley views.

11.4 km SW

Isolated wooded hill, the county's beloved landmark.

14.3 km E

Sweeping heather moorland plateau above Church Stretton.

15.5 km S

Bleak quartzite ridge crested with jagged tors, a National Nature Reserve steeped in devil legend.

17.6 km SW

Twelve-mile wooded limestone escarpment running from Much Wenlock to Craven Arms, sung by Housman and Vaughan Williams.

18 km SE

The largest and most notorious tor on the Stiperstones ridge, a scramble of quartzite wrapped in folklore.

18.1 km SW

Ancient market town with a ruined priory and the Wenlock Olympian Games that helped inspire the modern Olympics.

18.2 km SE · Shropshire

Romantic monastic ruins with topiary gardens.

18.3 km SE

Jagged quartzite tors along a wild ridge.

18.6 km SW

National Trust valley biting into the Long Mynd above Church Stretton, a busy gateway to the open hill.

18.7 km S

High point of the Long Mynd's heather plateau, a toposcope summit with views deep into Wales.

18.7 km S

Georgian follies, cliffs and grottoes in parkland.

19.1 km NE

Sixty acres of water gardens falling to a chain of pools below a neo-Elizabethan mansion.

19.8 km NE

Riverside village strung along the Severn beneath the world's first iron bridge, heart of a World Heritage gorge.

20.2 km SE · Shropshire

The world's first major cast-iron bridge, cast at Coalbrookdale and thrown over the Severn in 1779, heart of a World Heritage gorge.

20.2 km SE

The length of the Welsh borders, tracking the eighth-century earthwork that once divided kingdoms.

21.1 km W · spans 8 counties

Museum of decorative tiles in the former Craven Dunnill works by the Severn, part of the Ironbridge Gorge collection.

21.6 km SE

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

22.1 km SE · spans 14 counties

Recreated Victorian town in the Ironbridge Gorge where costumed shopkeepers, a foundry and a fairground bring the industrial age alive.

22.2 km SE

Riverside museum in the old Coalport works telling the story of Shropshire's fine porcelain, one of ten Ironbridge Gorge museums.

22.7 km SE

Mitchell's Fold stone circle, standing stone and cairn 280m south west of Mitchell's Fold

23.4 km SW

Britain's longest riverside walk, shadowing the Severn from its peat-hag source on Plynlimon to the docks at Bristol.

0.3 km E · spans 5 counties

A figure-of-eight on Shrewsbury through the Shropshire hills, with the Wrekin, the Stiperstones and Wenlock Edge all on the round.

0.3 km N · Shropshire & Wrexham

A National Trust place in Shropshire.

0.3 km SW

Hillside vineyard and winery above Shrewsbury with tours, tastings and a restaurant looking out over the vines to the Shropshire Hills.

2.6 km N

Cast-iron bridge of 1813 spanning the Cound Brook in a single arch south of Shrewsbury, signed off and perhaps designed by Thomas Telford.

6.9 km SE

A National Nature Reserve in Shropshire.

10.6 km SW