50 great days out in Shropshire and Mid Wales: 21-30

21. The Bog Visitor Centre - The Bog Visitor Centre, in the shadow of the Stiperstones in Shropshire, is the perfect place to begin a walk around these wonderful hills. The gas-lit Victorian former school is one of the few remaining buildings of a lost lead and barytes mining village.The bog mine once had 200 buildings.

22. The Land of Lost Content - The Land of Lost Content is an amazing celebration of British popular culture. The brainchild of Stella and Dave Mitchell, who have put together an amazing reflection of our yesterdays, the museum in Craven Arms looks at all that Britain has produced over the past 100 years.

23. Lakeside Plant Centre, Telford - The animal park at Lakeside Plant Centre, near Telford, is home to a range of unusual animals which would otherwise have been homeless. Visitors can feed the animals including wallabies, mara, kuni kuni pigs, guinea pigs, rabbits, pygmy goats, chickens and ducks. For those wanting to get more up close and personal, the park runs experience days.

24. Old Oswestry Hillfort - The Old Oswestry Hillfort was built and occupied during the Iron Age and is one of the best-preserved hill forts in Britain. A fine example of a 'multi-vallate' or multiple rampart hill fort, it is one of a dense band of hill forts in eastern Wales and the Marches.

25. Coalport China Museum - Coalport China Museum is based in a factory where fine English china was produced from 1795 until 1926. As well as original examples of historic china, there are also demonstrations of traditional ceramic techniques and original industrial buildings including kilns to fire the pottery.

26. The Dudmaston Estate - The Dudmaston Estate near Bridgnorth offers 875 years of history set among enchanted wooded parkland, sweeping gardens in the Shropshire countryside. The gardens provide amazing vistas and tranquillity while the orchard is the perfect place to relax and for the children to let off steam. Still being used as a family home, visitors will see rooms scattered with photos and perhaps an odd pair of shoes or two peeping out from under a table.

27. Wenlock Priory - The tranquil ruins of Wenlock Priory stand in a picturesque setting on the fringe of the village of Much Wenlock. An Anglo-Saxon monastery was founded here in about 680AD by King Merewalh of Mercia, whose abbess daughter Milburge was hailed as a saint. Her relics were rediscovered here in 1101, attracting both pilgrims and prosperity to the priory.

28. Whittington Castle - Whittington Castle, near Oswestry, offers excellent views of the former medieval gardens, and harks back to the time when the wars had ceased and Lady Eleanor turned the castle into a family home.

29. Much Wenlock - Learn all about Much Wenlock's role as the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games at the town's museum and information centre. There is a special Olympian trail which begins at the museum.

30. Attingham Park - Attingham Park, in Atcham near Shrewsbury, is a bit of a treasure. This impressive country house was built for the 1st Lord Berwick in 1785. Set in spectacular grounds on the River Severn, visitors can see how the family and servants would have lived.

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