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There’s a good reason why this
small town near Shropshire’s ‘Secret Hills’ sounds
like it was named after an English pub. It was.
The pub and a hotel were opened in the earlypart of the 19th century by Lord
Craven. A town developed around it once the area
joined the railway boom.
Stokesay Castle
Today Craven Arms is the perfect place from
which to explore the local countryside. First
stop is the nearby Secret Hills Discovery
Centre housed in a building which has a roof
made from 70 tons of grass. Among its exhibits
is the skeleton of an Ice Age mammoth.
Close to the town is the glorious Stokesay Castle,
possibly Britain’s finest fortified manor house
from the 13th century. Built by a rich
medieval merchant to impress the local bigwigs, it
is now run by English Heritage.
