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| Park Hall Countryside Experience |
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Premier all weather attraction on a 130 acre Victorian farm. Animals large and small, milking, lamb feeding, pony grooming, and cart rides. Huge indoor play arena with toy tractor circuit and bouncy castles. Vintage Garage and Welsh Guards Museum. Exciting extras: Junior Driving School and quad bikes. Excellent Tearooms and picnic areas.
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| Acton Scott Historic Working Farm |
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| Living History in the Shropshire Hills. Experience daily life on an upland farm at the turn of the century. |
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| Blists Hill Victorian Town |
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| Part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust group and one of the most popular attractions in Shropshire - a living outdoor museum where all the staff dress in period costume. Visit a host of restored Victorian buildings, shops, factories, schools to name just a few. |
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| Bridgnorth Town Hall |
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| Dominating the High Street this magnificent timber framed building was built in 1652. The splendidly preserved interior containing numerous historical town artifacts which must be seen. |
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| Broseley Clay Tobacco Pipe Museum |
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| Restored tobacco pipe-making works. Operated by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust |
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| Coalport China Museum |
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| National Collections of Caughley and Coalport china. Demonstration workshops and shop. Part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Group |
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| Coleham Pumping Station |
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| Pumping Station, built in 1900 to house two massive steam-driven beam engines to pump sewage..... fun fun fun! |
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| Enginuity |
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| Enginuity is an interactive design and technology centre that aims to inspire and capture the imagination of everyone intrigued by the secrets of how things around them are made and how they work. An Ironbridge Gorge Museum Site. |
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| Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker |
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| A piece of very modern history - In the event of nuclear war - Hack Green would have been a Wartime HQ. |
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| House on Crutches Museum |
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| 16th century timber-framed house with exhibits depicting local history and rural life in South Shropshire. |
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| Jackfield Tile Museum |
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| Displays of decorative tiles, geological exhibitions, workshops and shop. Part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Group. |
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| Land of Lost Content |
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| National Museum of British Popular Culture. A Million Memories from the 20th. Century, See All We Enjoyed & All We Endured, Everything You, your Parents, Grandparents, Sons & Daughters Owned, Used, Played with and Threw Away. |
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| Llangollen Motor Museum |
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| Take a trip down memory lane and marvel at the collection of cars, motor cycles and memorabilia dating from 1912 to 1970. See how the village garage mechanic and his wife lived and worked. |
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| Ludlow Museum |
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| Local geology & fossils, history of Ludlow and area from the Stone Age to the present time plus regular exhibitions. Free admission in 2002. |
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| Much Wenlock Museum |
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| Included a collection of Wenlock Olympian Society artefacts illustrating the significant role of Much Wenlock in the revival of the Modern Olympic Games. |
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| Museum of Iron |
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| Darby furnace where ground breaking technology was used to smelt iron with coke resulting in the construction of the worlds first iron bridge built across the River Severn. An Ironbridge Gorge Museum Site. |
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| Museum of the Gorge |
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| An audio-video presentation will give you a flavour of what the gorge has to offer. There also is a scale model showing how busy the river was in Victorian times when it played a vital role transporting goods from place to place. Part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Group |
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| Mythstories Museum of Myth & Fable |
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| A facinating small museum with display exhibitions and storytelling research material. Regular storytelling events throughout the year. Free admission |
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| Northgate Museum |
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| A fascinating collection of town artifacts run by Bridgnorth & District Historical Society. |
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| Powysland Museum |
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| History and development of life in Montgomeryshire from the earliest prehistoric settlers to the 20th century population. |
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| Royal Air Force Museum Cosford |
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| Cosford is one of the UK's top aircraft museums. The huge site houses over 70 aircraft and a host of exhibitions and features, including the new Cold War exhibition. |
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| Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery |
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| This striking black & white 16th century building was formerly known as Rowley's House, and currently home to the Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery. |
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| Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre |
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| Information Centre & Visitor Attraction located in Craven Arms with cafe, gallery, shop, meadows and trails. Lots of information and displays for those wishing to explore South Shropshire. |
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| Tenbury Museum |
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| The Museum in Cross Street, is housed in the old Goff’s Charity School and houses many interesting items from Tenbury’s past. Parents and grandparents are always fascinated by artifacts they remember from their childhood. |
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| The Cambrian Transport Museum |
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| Oswestry was once the headquarters of The Cambrian Railways Ltd. The old Oswestry Station is now the headquarters of The Cambrian Railways Society Ltd, and a museum showing many photographs, railway memorabilia, and artefacts. Visitors can also see Steam Engines working in the summer months. |
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| The Tar Tunnel |
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| Over 200 years ago natural bitumen trickled like treacle into pools. It was turned into pitch, lamp black and rheumatics remedies. Now you can walk along this brick-lined tunnel where the bitumen still oozes through the walls. Part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust Group |
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| Welsh Guards Museum |
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| The Welsh Guards Collection is a magnificent exhibition of uniforms, arms, artefacts and memorabilia, which depict 'the life in the Welsh Guards' since its formation in 1915. |
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| Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture |
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The fantasy world of the internationally renowned sculptor, Andrew Logan.
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| Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture |
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| Over 60 sculptures displayed throughout 10 acres of superbly diverse landscape just outside the historic Ironbridge Gorge |
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