Places to explore near Telford

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

3.9 km W

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

4.9 km S · spans 14 counties

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

5.4 km S

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

6.2 km S

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

6.2 km SW · 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.

6.3 km SW

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

6.6 km S

Isolated wooded hill, the county's beloved landmark.

7.2 km W

A 17th-century house in Capability Brown parkland, hung with Van Dyck and Stubbs.

10.7 km E

Romantic monastic ruins with topiary gardens.

11.7 km SW

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

11.9 km SW · Shropshire

Viroconium — one of Roman Britain's great cities.

13.7 km W

The hunting lodge where Charles II hid after Worcester, with the Royal Oak descendant in its field.

13.7 km E

Grand Regency mansion in a Repton deer park.

15 km W

Two-tier town split by the Severn, its High Town and Low Town linked by a cliff railway and a leaning castle keep.

16 km S · Shropshire

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

18.1 km SW

Arts-and-Crafts house rich in Pre-Raphaelite art.

19.8 km SE

Timber-framed medieval town in a Severn loop.

20.4 km W

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.

20.7 km W

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

21.4 km NW

Georgian follies, cliffs and grottoes in parkland.

23.4 km NW

A country park in Shropshire.

3.5 km NE

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

5 km SW · Shropshire & Wrexham

A National Trust place in Shropshire.

5.2 km W

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

6.1 km S · spans 5 counties

Riverside pub at Jackfield by the Ironbridge Gorge, its walls marking the Severn's great flood levels.

6.5 km S

A National Trust place in Shropshire.

7.4 km SW

Richly furnished 15th-century collegiate church nicknamed the 'Westminster Abbey of the Midlands' for its alabaster tombs.

9.7 km E