Make furry farmyard friends at Hoo Farm and Ray’s Farm Country Matters. Ride the world’s fastest zip line at Zip World, brave the slopes at Telford Ski Centre or ride the hills on two wheels with the Shropshire Hills Mountain Bike Centre. Take a tour of the Severn on the Sabrina passenger boat. Or celebrate with fine wines from Tanner’s.
Looking to make furry farmyard friends? You’ll want Hoo Farm, Ray’s Farm Country Matters, or the Park Hall Countryside Experience. For more animals adventures, consider the wild stallions on top of Long Mynd, the sharks and pelicans at the Blue Planet Aquarium and the birds of prey of Battlefield Falconry Centre.
Head into Wales to ride the world’s fastest zip line at Zip World, plus the Tower Climber, high ropes, underground golf and more. Or pop over to sister site Bounce Below for a unique subterranean trampolining adventure on bouncy nets twice the size of St Paul’s Cathedral. Or get your skates on at Telford Ice Rink.
How do you pull a ten-ton locomotive? Enginuity in Telford will tell you. Learn all about the Industrial Revolution at the Ironbridge Gorge Museums. Go back to another age at the Blists Hill Victorian Town. Discover the forts and castles of border country, such as Blandings Castle, Powis Castle and Ludlow Castle. Or take the King Arthur Trail.
Ride the ‘blue-remembered hills’ on two wheels with the Shropshire Hills Mountain Bike Centre. Tag your mates with lasers at Quasar Shrewsbury. Brave the slopes at Telford Snowboard and Ski Centre. Hit 60mph at Rednal Karting. Or ride England’s oldest and steepest inland electric funicular railway down Bridgnorth’s cliffs.
Enjoy a quirkily, quaintly, quintessentially English experience in Wem, home of the sweet pea and just as yummy for delis, teashops, pubs and a taste of Old England. You’ll enjoy a similar experience at Market Drayton, Bishops Castle and Much Wenlock, delightful towns punctuating a landscape of dramatic hills and border forts.
Explore the trails, arches and ravines of Hawkstone Historic Park. Walk the hills that rise dramatically from above Church Stretton. Play great golf courses at Hawkstone Park Hotel, The Shropshire and Cleobury Mortimer. Or make like Tarzan high up in the boughs at The Adventure Ropes Course.
Chug along the Shropshire Union Canal pulled by one horsepower on a canal-boat Bywater Cruise. Keep your groundstrokes going at the Shrewsbury Tennis Club. Treat yourself to a picnic and boat tour of the Severn with the Sabrina passenger boat. Or do the work yourself by canoe, kayak or paddleboard with Hire a Canoe.
Something to celebrate? Do it in style with whisky, gin, or Calvados and bourbon-style tipples from Henstone Distillery, or fine wines from Tanner’s. Fish the two lakes and bait pool at Chirk Fishery for rainbow, brown, brook, golden, blue and tiger trout. Or dip a toe into local heritage with trips to Stokesay Court and Morville Hall.
