Hawkstone Park
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Address – Weston-under-Redcastle
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY4 5UY |
| Phone | 01939 200611 |
| Opening times |
Are highly complex – call for current information. Usually 10.00 – 15.00 weekends, some weekdays in the summer and the caves are closed for the whole of January, also note 29th October – 31st December Closed except for Santa’s Grotto trips in December (pre-booking essential)
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| Collection/special features | Look out for the Monument, a hundred feet high and from the top you can see thirteen counties |
| Dog friendly? |
No |
| Child friendly? | As long as your child is reasonably robust and neither claustrophobic nor prone to vertigo they will probably adore this very unusual landscape |
| Description |
The original thirteenth century house was destroyed by Cromwell and the Hill Family then went on in the eighteenth century to create this bizarre but very lovely fantasyland of cliffs, crags, caves, deep woods and a series of extraordinary monuments. After decades of neglect, the landscape has been carefully restored and the Follies were opened to the public in 1993. Highlights include Grotto Hill, where you can explore a pitch-dark labyrinth of ancient mines cut into the cliff, the Swiss Bridge, which is a rustic wooden structure perched over an unnervingly deep chasm (those with vertigo should not take this route but walk round) and the Cleft, a path winding between two cliffs which narrows into a dark, creepy tunnel. |
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Hawkstone Park photograph by snake3yes, used under a creative commons licence
