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Stokesay
Village in Shropshire, England

Stokesay

Stokesay is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Craven Arms, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England.

It is just south of Craven Arms on the A49 road, also fleetingly visible from the Shrewsbury to Hereford Welsh Marches railway line. In 1961 the parish had a population of 1217.

How locals move

Getting around Stokesay the local way

  • Get inThey continue to Leominster, Hereford, Abergavenny, Newport, Cardiff, Port Talbot, Neath, Swansea, Llanelli, Carmarthen, Haverfordwest, Milford Haven and Fishguard, for ferries to Rosslare.
  • Get inTrains from Holyhead (for Dublin ferries) run every two hours and take 3 hr 10 min via Llanfairpwll (etcetera etcetera) and stations along the north Wales coast, Chester, Wrexham, Chirk and Shrewsbury then as above through Ludlow to Cardiff.

From Wikivoyage: Ludlow (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: DeFacto (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.