Attractions near Claremont Holiday Cottages

Walcot Hall (3 Miles)* Walcot Hall dates back to Tudor times, the original Elizabethan facade being gabled. In 1763, Lord Clive of India commissioned Sir William Chambers, leading architect of the time to redesign the house.

Carding Mill Valley and the Shropshire Hills (8 Miles)* The National Trust's Carding Mill Valley and the surrounding area of the Shropshire Hills is the ideal recreation area for those who enjoy long solitary walks, wildlife spotting, mountain biking.

Acton Scott Historic Working Farm (8 Miles)* Every afternoon you can see hand milking. Buttermaking takes place in the dairy holidays and weekends.

Stokesay Castle (9 Miles)* This is one of England's best preserved fortified manor houses. Stokesay's Great Hall is unchanged since the days of baronial feasts.

Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture (11 Miles)* Andrew Logan's work is of popular poetry and metropolitan glamour. It is an art which resounds with the exuberant excess of a Busby Berkeley musical.

Glansevern Hall (11 Miles)* Over 25 acres of glorious gardens surrounding a Greek revival house of great elegance on the banks of the River Severn.

Ludlow Racecourse (12 Miles)* Tradition has it that in the fourteenth century soldiers from Ludlow Castle came here not only to practice archery but also to match their horses.

Powis Castle and Garden (12 Miles)* It is hard to believe that the oldest parts of Powis Castle were begun around 800 years ago and some of the oaks were planted at a similar time. The castle was built by the Welsh Princes.

Powysland Museum (12 Miles)* The groundfloor displays illustrate the history and development of life in Montgomeryshire from the earliest prehistoric settlers to the 20th century population.

Newtown Textile Museum (13 Miles)* Step into the lives of the handloom weavers of the mid 19th century with a visit to Newtown Textile Museum

* Distances shown are in a direct line. Distances by road will be longer.

Towns near Claremont Holiday Cottages

Lydham (1 Mile)*

Hyssington (3 Miles)*

Clunton (4 Miles)*

Hopesay (5 Miles)*

Clun (5 Miles)* Clun is a town in miniature, lying in the valley of the River Clun. The ruined Norman castle, built in the 12th century to defend the Welsh border dominates the town.

Ratlinghope (7 Miles)* The small village of Ratlinghope and its equally tiny offshoot Bridges lie in the beautiful valley of the Darnford brook, which rises at Wildmoor Pool on the Long Mynd. Its name is pronounced "Ratchup" by some locals.

Clungunford (7 Miles)* Clungunford is a small village, witn no shops or pubs that is why it is a very peacefull place. The river clun runs through the village.

Little Stretton (7 Miles)* Little Stretton is in the heart of the Shropshire Hills, nestling at the foot of the Long Mynd and looking across the valley to Ragleth Hill.

Church Stretton (8 Miles)* Church Stretton's glorious setting in a narrow valley earned the name 'Little Switzerland' from the Victorians when they tried to establish it as a spa, and visitors today are still refreshed by its beauty.

Llandyssil (8 Miles)*

* Distances shown are in a direct line. Distances by road will be longer.