Historic BuildingsMoreton Corbet

One of the great houses of the Midlands, Attingham Park was built in 1785 for the 1st Lord Berwick to the design of George Steuart and has a picture gallery by John Nash. The magnificent rooms contain collections of ambassadorial silver, Italian furniture and Grand Tour paintings. The…
Distance: 8.1 miles away

A sixteenth century house with a nineteenth century garden planted by George Maw, a bulb collector and breeder. There is a terraced garden, a rock garden and a rose garden designed by Graham Stuart Thomas. Situated on a plateau above the gorge of the River Severn, this…
Distance: 14.3 miles away

Extensive remains of a 12th‐century Augustinian abbey; the exhibition commemorates 600 years since the Battle of Shrewsbury.The ruins of Haughmond Abbey are looked after by English Heritage and are open to the public.…
Distance: 5.1 miles away

The castle may date from as far back as the 12th century. It was partially demolished in the 16th century to make way for the great Elizabethan mansion house.…
Distance: 3.9 miles away

The Castle houses the spectacular collections of the Shropshire Regimental Museum Trust including pictures, uniforms, medals, weapons and other equipment from the 18th Century to the present day. The oldest parts of the Castle were built between 1066 and 1074, during the reign of William the Conqueror.…
Distance: 7.2 miles away

Come and visit the secret jewel in Shropshire. Entrance in the village of Marchamley.Party bookings taken.Open: 14 ‐ 31 August…
Distance: 4.7 miles away

There has been a park and gardens at Hodnet for many hundreds of years, and their design and size has followed on from the three different sites of the houses in which the Heber‐Percy family and their ancestors have lived. Woodland walks alongside a daisy chain of…
Distance: 5 miles away

The extensive, evocative ruins of an abbey of Augustinian canons, dissolved in 1538, feature the remains of the 12th‐ and 13th‐century church and cloister buildings, surrounded by lawns and ancient yew trees. Closed 1 October ‐ 31 March.…
Distance: 12.8 miles away

This substantial red‐brick villa is typical of the many thousands that were built for the prosperous middle classes in the late Victorian period.Sunnycroft is one of the very few villas to have survived, with a mini estate and largely unaltered contents and decoration.There's lots to see and do…
Distance: 9.8 miles away

A delightful 20th Century garden around a 16th Century house not open. The formal design creates many separate smaller gardens each with its own design and planting. The garden is complemented by significant collections of tender salvias, clematis, crocosmias and many other rare and desirable perennials.…
Distance: 6.2 miles away

Tucked away in a quite backwater of Shropshire stand the remains of a thirteenth century fortified manor house at Acton Burnell. It was built in the 13th century by Robert Burnell, Chancellor of England and close friend of King Edward the First. Acton Burnell was…
Distance: 13.1 miles away

Impressive ruins of a Cistercian abbey, including its unusually unaltered 12th‐century church, beautiful vaulted and tile‐floored chapter house, and recently re‐opened crypt chapel. In a wooded Severn‐side setting, not far from the Iron Bridge and Wenlock Priory.…
Distance: 13 miles away