Once visited, stunning Shropshire is rarely forgotten. With its breathtaking vistas, picturesque towns made up of quaint cottages, cobbled paths and authentic steam railway, the county is perfectly idyllic.
We found our inspiration in the rolling Shropshire countryside and the quality of using natural produce. To celebrate our county we dedicate this page to all your favourite places, pictures and memories and welcome snapshots of your Shropshire stories.
We would love to show more of our beautiful county so if you have some great photos of Shropshire and would like to share them with us please send them to: photos@shropshiregranola.co.uk and we shall build a gallery from your conributions.
Shropshire is the ideal place for great days out and we shall be attending the followings ones this year:
Newport Show
The Newport Show in Shropshire is a premier one day agricultural show, held at Chetwynd Deer Park, acknowledged by many to be the most beautiful show ground in the country.
Burwarton Show
Burwarton Show provides a truly great day out for all the family with something of interest for everyone. We offer a wide variety of classes for heavy horses, cattle, sheep, horses & ponies and goats, horticultural, handicraft, children, cookery, young farmers and much more.
Canwell Show
A truly great English Summers day out the show attracts families from both the farming community and the nearby town and cities with its mix of live stock, horses events, live music, trade stalls, craft - food - horticultural marquees, to name just a few of the wonderful sights and sounds that delight each year.
Ludlow Food Festival
Held every year in Ludlow, the small town with the large reputation for good food and drink - this year's Festival will feature more than 130 top quality small independent food and drink producers from the Marches, the England-Wales border country.
'The most relaxing journey of my life was from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth on the Severn Valley Railway. The slow pace of the Steam Train made me appreciate the beauty the surrounds us and the landscape that entices us back year after year.'
Anna Coulson, Peterborough
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Shropshire was the birth place of Charles Darwin and Wilfred Owen and Industry! |
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Shropshire is the home of the World's first skyscraper, the Ditherington Flax Mill, the first multi-storey iron framed building in the world. |
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The Shropshire town of Wem is famous not only for having one of the shortest names in Britain, it also produced the sweet pea. |
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In its lifetime a Shropshire honeybee will produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey. |
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If you're fond of small spiky mammals, then Shropshire is the place for you. It's the home of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, which was started in 1982 by Major Adrian Coles. |
