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Grinshill Quarries

Open accesson open access land, where the right to roam applies

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Grinshill Quarries is one of 105 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Shropshire. Other SSSIs nearby include Brownheath Moss and Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses. The nearest railway station is Yorton, about 1.9 km to the west.

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Photo along the Shropshire Way, a 182-mile long-distance path in England and Wales.

Shropshire Way

Long-distance path

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 W · Shropshire & Wrexham

Photo of Hawkstone, a Grade I registered house & garden near Hodnet, Shropshire, central England.Highlight

Hawkstone

House & garden near Hodnet

Georgian follies, cliffs and grottoes in parkland.

8.1 km NE

Photo along the Severn Way, a 210-mile long-distance path running from Plynlimon to Bristol, England and Wales.

Severn Way

Long-distance path

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

9.5 km S · spans 5 counties

Photo of Hodnet Hall, a Grade II registered house & garden in Shropshire, central England.Highlight

Hodnet Hall

House & garden near Hodnet

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

9.7 km NE

Photo of Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings, a visitor attraction in Shropshire, central England.Highlight

Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings

Attraction near Shrewsbury

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.

10.3 km S

Photo of Shrewsbury Abbey, an abbey in Shropshire, central England.Highlight

Shrewsbury Abbey

Abbey near Shrewsbury

Timber-framed medieval town in a Severn loop.

11.6 km S