Other sights in ShropshireShropshire, England

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

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

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

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

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

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

Slim Victorian stone tower on Callow Hill near Craven Arms, opened on clear days for a four-county panorama.

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

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.

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

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

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