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Shropshire - May Day Weekend- Friday 29th April to Monday 2nd May 2011
Organiser Glynis Holmes
What a wonderful area it is with something for everyone. Whether you prefer Walking:-high level or low, cycling or just having a potter around the tourist trail and tea shops; there’s something here for you.
Accommodation Fancy going back to uni; Knowledge innovation and enterprise!! Don’t worry you won’t need a degree for this trip. The University of Wolverhampton has a campus at Telford which is just 15 minutes drive from Ironbridge and they can accommodate us in single en-suite rooms on a dinner (three courses) bed and breakfast (cereal, juice, continental, full cooked or all of the above) basis for £45 per person per night. All the rooms have a shower room with wc and hand basin, towels, TV, tea making facilities and free wifi access all around campus. Each flat has six single en-suite rooms and a communal kitchen where you can make your flasks and packed lunches and a fridge to keep the wine chilled. Some of you have already stayed in university accommodation so you know the set up, everybody gets their own room (couples have a room each). There is plenty of parking at each flat and bike racks too. Priorslee Campus has a grade 1 listed Hall where we will take our evening meal in the orchard restaurant. It has a refreshments bar (cash only) where we can meet up before dinner and wine can be pre ordered to have with your meal if you wish.
Things to do The campus has tennis/ basket ball courts, football pitches and plenty of green areas if anyone fancies a friendly game. There are paths through the grounds and down to a lake so we can have the customary after dinner stroll. Telford has an ice rink, snowboard and ski centre, Town Park and all the high street shops if that’s what floats your boat.
We can park in Ironbridge for £1.20p all day and from there you can join the Shropshire way or the Monarchs Way to do short, medium or long walks. There’s lots of museums and plenty of places to have lunch or snacks if you don’t want to walk. It’s only a short car hop to Little Wenlock for The Wrekin, Much Wenlock for Wenlock Edge or The Olimpian Trail and a tea shop if you just want to take it easy. 35 minutes will see us at Church Stretton for the Long Mynd and Stipperstones or Stoke St Milboroughs from where we can do the highest of the Shropshire hills, Brown Clee. Ludlow, Bridgnorth and historic Shrewsbury are all near by and there’s a lot to offer the tourist. There are plenty of quiet back lanes in the valleys of the Severn, Teme and Corve to entertain the cyclists among us.
Transport We will be arranging the usual car share so don’t worry if you don’t have transport it will all be sorted out nearer the time when I know who is going.
What do you need to do if you want to come to Shropshire with us? Send a cheque made payable to Morley Walking Club to Glynis as soon as possible. If you would like to go but you can’t book your leave yet then email or ring me to let me know and I’ll add some rooms later availability permitting. If I can get the bulk of the bookings done ASAP we’ll have more chance of securing the whole block for Morley Walking Club.
Caravans There are caravan sites about 5 miles away at Tweedale or Wellington. If you wish to take your caravan I can arrange for you to take evening meals with us.
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