Attractions in Hodnet & Things to Do in Hodnet
(and nearby)

Hodnet Hall Gardens (< 1 Mile)*
Winner of the Christies Historic Houses Association "Garden of the Year" Award for 1985, and subject of numerous BBC radio and television programmes.
Haughmond Abbey (8 Miles)*
The extensive ruins of the 12th century Haughmond Augustinian Abbey can be found at Shropshire's Upton Magna.
Lilleshall Abbey (11 Miles)*
Lilleshall Abbey was dissolved in 1538, yet today its extensive and peaceful ruins are an evocative reminder of the lives of its Augustinian canons.
Dorothy Clive Garden (11 Miles)*
The Dorothy Clive Garden is intimate and informal. It embraces a variety of landscape features, including a superb woodland garden, an alpine scree, a damp garden and spectacular summer flower borders.
Attingham Park (12 Miles)*
Attingham Park was built in 1785 for the 1st Lord Berwick. It has a picture gallery by John Nash, magnificent Regency interiors and collections of silver, Italian furniture and Grand Tour paintings.
Shrewsbury Castle and The Shropshire Regimental Museum (12 Miles)*
Shropshire Regimental Museum houses the collections of the four Shropshire Regiments - King's Shropshire light Infantry, Shropshire Yeomanry, Shropshire Royal Horse Artillery and 4th Bn King's Shropshire Light Infantry TA.
Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery (Rowley's House) (12 Miles)*
Rocks, Romans, China and Costume, Mediaeval Shrewsbury and Shropshire Wildlife.
Coleham Pumping Station (12 Miles)*
Magnificent Renshaw beam engines in 1901 pumping house.
Wroxeter Roman City (13 Miles)*
Visiting the museum at Wroxeter gives a good insight into what life was like in a big Roman city. The museum tracks life from before the Romans arrived through to what happened after they left.
Stapeley Water Gardens (14 Miles)*
Stapeley Water Gardens is the perfect destination to keep the whole family entertained. At the Palms Tropical Oasis there's a whole new world of rare plants, as well as animals.
Cholmondeley Castle Gardens (15 Miles)*
Cholmondeley Castle Garden is said by many to be among the most romantically beautiful gardens they have ever seen.
Dorfold Hall (15 Miles)*
Dorfold Hall is a Jacobean country house built in 1616 for Ralph Wilbraham. The house has beautiful plaster ceilings and panelling. The 18 acres of garden reflect four centuries of gardening fashion.
Buildwas Abbey (15 Miles)*
Set beside the River Severn, against a backdrop of wooded gardens, are the remains of this Cistercian abbey.
Ironbridge Gorge Museums (15 Miles)*
This is the valley that changed our world, this is where the Industrial Revolution began.
Iron Bridge (15 Miles)*
This, the world's first iron bridge was cast by local ironmaster Abraham Darby and erected over the River Seven in 1779.
Izaak Walton's Cottage (16 Miles)*
Izaac Walton is best remembered for writing the 'The Compleat Angler' which was completed in 1653. The following year he bought the Halfhead Estate which included the cottage.
Weston Park (16 Miles)*
Visit Weston Park, set in the spectacular Shropshire countryside, and you will marvel at the beautiful Seventeenth Century House and the splendour of the 1,000 acre Parkland in which it rests.
Bangor-on-Dee Racecourse (17 Miles)*
There's a warm welcome at Bangor-on-Dee Races throughout the year. Set in glorious countryside beside the River Dee this perfect country course provides exciting racing with top trainers and jockeys at every meeting.
Wenlock Priory (17 Miles)*
Wenlock Priory with its striking clipped topiary has a pastoral setting on the edge of lovely Much Wenlock.
Royal Air Force Museum Cosford (18 Miles)*
The Royal Air Force Museum Cosford houses one of the largest aviation collections in the United Kingdom.
Boscobel House (18 Miles)*
Boscobel House was built in about 1632, when John Giffard of Whiteladies converted a timber-framed farmhouse into a hunting lodge.
Stafford Castle & Visitors Centre (18 Miles)*
This prominent vantage point and strategic site was quickly recognised by the Normans, who built a huge timber fortress here by 1100 AD. Extensively rebuilt in the Gothic Revival Style in 1813, the castle fell into ruin through this century.
Beeston Castle (19 Miles)*
Sitting on a sandstone escarpment 500 feet above the Cheshire Plain, Beeston Castle has stunning views as far as the Welsh Mountains and the Pennines on a clear day.
The Ancient High House (19 Miles)*
Stafford's Ancient High House has been one of the most important buildings of the town for over four hundred years. Its late Elizabethan architecture makes it particularly distinctive among its 20th century neighbours.
Etruria Industrial Museum (19 Miles)*
Situated at the juction between the Trent & Mersey Canal and the Cauldon Canal, Etruria Industrial Museum is centered around Jesse Shirley's Bone & Flint Mill.
* Distances shown are in a direct line. Distances by road will be longer.



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