Stokesay

Worth seeing in and around Stokesay

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Stokesay Castle

   Stokesay Castle is one of the finest surviving fortified manor houses in England, and situated at Stokesay in Shropshire. It was largely built in its present form in the late 13th century by Laurence of Ludlow, on the earlier castle founded by its original owners the de Lacy family, from whom it passed to their de Verdun heirs, who retained feudal overlordship of Stokesay until at least 1317.

   100 m · Grade I listed historic house museum in Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Cheney Longville Castle

   Cheney Longville Castle was in the village of Cheney Longville to the north of Craven Arms, Shropshire. It is a much restored 14th century fortified manor house.

   3.5 km · fortified manor house in Shropshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Stokesay Court

   Stokesay Court is a country house and estate in the parish of Onibury in Shropshire, England. Described by John Newman, in the Shropshire volume of Pevsner's Buildings of England, as "the most grandiloquent Victorian mansion in the county", Stokesay is a Grade II* listed building.

   3.2 km · Grade II* listed manor house in the parish of Onibury, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Land of Lost Content

   The Land of Lost Content was a museum in Craven Arms, Shropshire, that collected everyday objects such as toys, magazines and packaging. The museum's name was taken from Poem XL in A. E. Housman's collection A Shropshire Lad.

   1 km · museum in Craven Arms, Shropshire · Wikipedia

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Getting to Stokesay

Airports

Birmingham (BHX), 73 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 101 km · Manchester (MAN), 109 km

Stations

Broome railway station, 3.8 km · Craven Arms railway station, 1.4 km · Onibury railway station, 3.2 km · Stretford Bridge Junction Halt railway station, 2.8 km · Wistanstow Halt railway station, 3.6 km

• Birmingham, West Midlands → Stokesay

  63 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £7–9
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• Liverpool → Stokesay

  109 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £12–16
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• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Stokesay

  123 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · £13–18
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