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Holidays in Shropshire.

One of England's most rural and sparsely populated counties.

Boroughs / districts in Shropshire : Bridgnorth, North Shropshire, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Atcham, South Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin (Unitary authority).

County town Shropshire : Shrewsbury.


car hire, holiday homes, hostels, hotels, travel agencies, travel guides, transportation / travelling to shropshire

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Camping & Caravanning England

 Eurocampings  -  ACSI Camping Guide

Car Rental West Midlands

 Holiday Autos  -  
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

 
From Enhanced Hertz Driving Directions to Emergency Roadside Assistance, check out the many reasons why Hertz is #1 in Car Rental

Holiday Homes / Cottages & Apartments

   -  leading UK provider of self-catered holidays
Availability search [ refining by specifying price, pet, pub nearby, open fire, swimming pool and more possible ], special offers and brochure request.

  -  Holiday Lodges and Holiday Parks Britain
A short break, or weekend, at one of our holiday parks gives you a real getaway, whatever the season. You'll find well-equipped and cosily heated bungalows, lodges, chalets, apartments and caravans in beautiful forest, countryside and coastal surroundings.

    -  Holiday homes in England
Holiday homes in Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset

Hotels in West Midlands

 Hotels in West Midlands [ Booking ] - Hotel Guides West Midlands

More Hotels? See Hotels.

Hostels / Budget Accommodation

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Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability. We do not charge a fee to use this service.

 Youth Hostels England

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

  -  Theme park breaks
Play-and-Stay is one of the leading theme park providers with 15 UK wide Theme Parks including Alton Towers.


Superbreak offer leisure hotel breaks and features 2-5 star hotels, with the majority in the 3-4 star+ rating.

 
Widest choice of self-catering holidays / short breaks throughout Britain, Ireland and Europe
A self-catering holiday in one of Hoseasons' holiday lodges and parks brings a new meaning to the word freedom. From the moment you arrive you can revel in the limitless possibilities offered at every resort centre.
And with late availability and last minute booking facilities, you'll soon be experiencing the holiday of your dreams.

 
Join the thousands of people who enjoy cruising on a narrowboat on the picturesque canals of England each year. Crafted and designed in the north of England blending traditional methods with modern materials, each boat is specially designed to include all the amenities and comforts you could need whilst on the canal. All of our boats are maintained to the highest standards by our professional in house teams who are on hand to help you 24 hours a day, 7days a week. Safety on board and a fantastic relaxing holiday are our main priorities.

 - in England
Golfbreaks.com is the UK's premier service for organising Golf Breaks and Golf Days, providing tailor-made golfbreaks at discounted prices and hundreds of special offers!

  -  Create your perfect trip



Travel Guides West Midlands / related books

Travel Guides England [ Amazon.co.uk ]

The Rough Guide to England (Rough Guide Travel Guides)  - By Jonathan Buckley, Robert Andrews (Editor)
Paperback 1152 pages (March 25, 2004); Publisher: Rough Guides
England (Lonely Planet Regional Guides S.)  - by Oliver Berry, Loretta Chilcoat, Fionn Davenport
Paperback 768 pages (March 2005); Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications

Transportation / How do I travel to Shropshire

 Birmingham Airport [ BHX ]
 Coventry [ CVT ]
 East Midlands [ EMA ]

  Opodo  -  
Flight tickets West Midlands.

 
Book cheap flights to West Midlands at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online.

  Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights  -  Flights to England

 
thetrainline is the fully impartial rail ticketing website owned by the Virgin Group, Virgin Rail Group and National Express Group, providing the cheaper way to buy train tickets online. thetrainline provides fast, easy and secure access to timetables, tickets and fares for all National Rail journeys across the UK.

 - Around the UK
You name it, they go there. National Express carries over 16 million passengers a year to 1000 different places in the UK, and thousands of others to destinations across Europe and Ireland. They run more services to and from UK airports than anyone else, and they even lay on special services to festivals like Glastonbury!

 Maps International  -   
Mapsinternational.co.uk is one of the largest map shops online.

 Multimap.com 
Street-level maps, road maps; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information.


Links 

 Travel Insurance  -  online travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

 Shropshire  -  Shropshire County Council
Shropshire sits very comfortably on the English Welsh border and only a short drive away from almost anywhere you will have heard of.
The real surprise is to find out how much Shropshire has to offer the unsuspecting visitor. For a start there are over 32 castles - a legacy of our border heritage, Shropshire is also the birth place of the Industrial Revolution at Ironbridge to be precise and 10 hands-on museums will explain it all. See for more Shropshire Tourism.

 Shrewsbury  -  county town  -  Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council
Shrewsbury has been called 'England's finest Tudor town' with good reason, black and white properties are everywhere and with over 660 listed buildings (quite a list) all linked by ancient shuts or passageways.
On the Border of Wales and England and surrounded almost entirely by the River Severn, Shrewsbury has been protected from the ravages of modern life. See for more Visit Shrewsbury.

 Bridgnorth
 North Shropshire
Towns of Ellesmere, Market Drayton, Wem and Whitchurch, as well as the large villages of Shawbury and Baschurch.
 Oswestry
 Shrewsbury and Atcham
 South Shropshire
 Telford and Wrekin (Unitary authority)

 Bishop's Castle
 Bridgnorth
 Church Stretton
 Craven Arms
 Ellesmere
 Ludlow
 Market Drayton
 Much Wenlock
 Newport
 Oswestry
 Shifnal 
 Telford
 Wellington
 Wem  -  small market town and HQ North Shropshire  -  Wem Town Web site
Numerous small specialty shops stocked to the gunn'els and bursting with delights. An old fashioned iron mongers that sells everything! Wem also has one of Shropshire's best delicatessen and that's a reference in itself. To help you re-live your childhood, pop in to the "Treacle Mine", a truly traditional sweet shop - Remember Pear Drops, Gobstoppers, Nut Brittle and Bonfire Toffee? ... See for more Tourism Wem. 
 Whitchurch

 Ironbridge Gorge  -  a UNESCO World Heritage Site  -  See Ironbridge Gorge Museum
The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust was established in 1967 to preserve and interpret the remains of the Industrial Revolution in the six square miles of the Ironbridge Gorge.

Cuisine

The staple foods of England are meat, fish, potatoes, flour, butter and eggs. Many of the English dishes are based on these foods.

Bacon Roly-Poly, Bangers and Mash, Black Pudding, Bubble & Squeak, Cornish Pasties, Cottage Pie, Fish & Chips, Gingerbread, Hot Cross Buns, Hot Pot, Kedgeree new, Ploughman's Lunch, Roast Beef, Roast Chicken, Roast lamb, Shepherd's Pie, Sponge Cake, Toad-in-the-Hole, Tom Collins, Trifle, Yorkshire Pudding

 Traditional foods in England
The Good Food Guide 2005  -  by Andrew Turvil (Editor)
Paperback 784 pages (October 1, 2004)
English Food  by Jane Grigson, Gillian Zeiner (Illustrator), Sophie Grigson
Paperback 400 pages; Penguin Books Ltd; ISBN: 0140273247
Favourite Pudding Recipes: Traditional Ways to a Man's Heart  -  Birkett Foster
Paperback 48 pages; Publisher: J Salmon; ISBN: 1898435685

History West Midlands

 Mappa Mundi
An outstanding treasure of the medieval age which reveals how 13th century scholars interpreted the world in spiritual and geographical terms.
 Shugborough Hall and Estate Stafford
Leave the 21st century behind and step into the real working environments of The Complete Working Historic Estate. See, feel, hear and smell history as our costumed 'first person' characters take you on a journey into the inner workings of a large country estate and bring real working environments to life.
 Staffordshire Past Track - Local History Online
This web site showcases examples of archive sources available for a variety of places in Staffordshire from the many collections deposited with the Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service and also from the printed and graphic collections owned by the William Salt Library, Stafford.
 Worcester City Museums
The very latest news on exhibitions, activities and events at our two sites - The Commandery and The City Art Gallery & Museum - as well as a host of information about the Museum's Collections and Worcester's History.

I Never Knew That About England  -  by Christopher Winn
Hardcover 208 pages (April 13, 2005); Publisher: Ebury Press
 English Heritage
 National Trust

Music, Art & Culture, Events & Entertainment

 Shire Hall Gallery
The Shire Hall Gallery is the largest venue in Staffordshire dedicated to providing access to, and promoting the visual arts and crafts. Situated in a fascinating Grade II listed building formerly used as the Crown Court the Shire Hall Gallery offers visitors a mixture of old and new with something for everyone!

The English Companion: An Idiosyncratic A-Z of England and Englishness 
By Godfrey Smith
Hardcover 283 pages (January 1, 1996); Publisher: Old House Books
 English folk and traditional music
Guide to Internet resources relating to English folk music
 English Folk Tales
There are many folktales relating to places in England, here is a small selection + English Fairies & Supernatural Creatures
 Traditional music & Folk related links  -  by area

 Birmingham - What's On
 Warwick International Festival 
Events include; music, fireworks, plays and much more.

 WhereCanWeGo.com  -  Britain's What's On Event Guide

Web Portal / Search Engines / Directories

 The Castles of England  -  Information Castles

 Ask Jeeves
 Google UK
 MSN UK

Boating Holidays

 - Find your perfect UK Boating Holiday
From the moment you set off on your boating holiday in your self-drive hire cruiser or traditional narrow boat, onto Britain's vast network of canals, rivers and inland waterways, you're at the helm in more ways than one. That's because you have the freedom to decide where to go, where to stop and what to visit.

 MSN UK 


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