This page is dedicated to providing information about the local area, events that are happening around and about, places to visit and places to eat and drink.
There are links to local sites of interest as well as walking and cycling information.
iframe>The area is well stocked with Places to Eat, whether in pubs, cafes or posh restaurants. Ludlow, being known as the Food Centre of Britain, can provide some really top class dining.
Food shopping can be fun too; Ludlow being a good place to shop for food. There is a little village shop, a garage a butchers and a post office in Bucknell and Knighton has a larger range of shops. Clun also has a good range of small shops.
If you want to shop for something other than food, Aardvark Books at Brampton Bryan is a wonderful place to spend a wet morning or afternoon. You can have tea or coffee while browsing a huge selection of new and secondhand books - a must visit.
Whether you want to walk, cycle or ride, there are plenty of well marked footpaths, cycle tracks and bridle ways as well as quiet country lanes. For dog owners, a new dog park has opened near Knighton where you can take your dog and relax in about an acre of securely fenced field. Find out more by clicking this link: Panpwnton Dog Park
When you or the children are bored with walking or your parents want a more gentle form of entertainment, visit the numerous castles, houses and gardens, wildlife, forestry and farms in the area. The Snailbeach Lead Mine, which is the best preserved lead mine in Britain, provides guided tours when they are open.
There are taxi firms you can ring for transport Don't rely on them to come out unless you give them plenty of notice. We are remote out here, public transport is for other people as far as I can tell; it is rare! However, there is a train service from Bucknell and a bus comes through once a week.
In alphabetical order. There are many more wonderful places to eat - too many to mention here; these are our favourites or local go-to’s!
The Bell Inn Yarpole 01568 780537 Friendly, community owned and run with an excellent value for money Sunday Lunch.
The Cider Barn Pembridge 01544388161 Restaurant open every day except Tuesdays A beautifully converted farm barn situated alongside the Dunkertons Cider Mill. The restaurant as owned and run by it’s chef, the food is delicious and different and most of the ingredients come from local sources.
The Green Cafe Ludlow 01584 879872 Csons are taking feeding people very seriously; check here https://www.csons.uk/ Situated by the river on the site of the old swimming pool, The Green Cafe is run by four brothers Crouch who call themselves the Csons. They serve delicious food from 9.00 to 4.00 from Mondays to Sundays. It is worth booking especially at lunchtime and is totally well worth a visit.
The Horse and Jockey Knighton 01547 520062 Lovely old coaching inn, easy to get to and open every day. Serve good quality pub food and is popular with the locals.
The Lion at Leintwardine Leintwardine 01547 540203 Booking probably essential. Good food in serviced restaurant or bar meals. Lovely for a special occasion or a casual lunch by the river Teme.
The Royal George, Lingen 01547 530213 A nice cosy 'pubby' pub, which serves very good food.
Saffron Restaurant, Knighton. 01547 528510 Indian, eat in or take away.
The Sitwell Arms, Bucknell 01547 530213 The nearest pub. Serves very good fish and chips on a Wednesday evening to eat in or take away, booking is necessary.
The Sun Inn Leintwardine 01547 540705 Open for food and drink and seating for fish and chips from next door. They say, ‘one of the last remaining parlour pubs in the UK’. I believe you can buy your fish and chips next door and eat them with your real ale in one of the parlours.
The Three Tuns Bishops Castle 01588 638797 Check out their website/Facebook page Home brewed beer, good food and live music.
The White Horse Clun 01588 640305 Recommend to book in advance The go-to pub in the area with home brewed beer and good food and live music.
Ludlow In the town there are cheese shops (The Mousetrap), delicatessens and organic food shops, not forgetting the Ludlow Farmshop, which is out of town on the A49 heading north. For cheaper food, there is also a Tescos and an Aldi
Knighton provides us with the Co-op (formally Harry Tuffins), which also has a petrol station, a Spar and a Cost Cutter. There is also on organic grocery shop Rhos Market Garden, The Old Garage, at the top of the town.
Knighton Community Centre, Bowling Green Lane, Knighton, Powys, LD7 1DR. A twice monthly market, held on the second and fourth Saturday of every month. 9.30am-12.30pm
Local to Ludlow Produce Market
Castle Square, Ludlow, Shropshire, SY8 1AS Held on the Second and Fourth Thursday of the month. 9am-2pm.
Bishops Castle Farmers' Market is held on the Third Saturday of every month in the Town Hall and the adjacent Market Square. 8.30am to 1.30pm.
First on your list would have to be Ludlow Castle, which is so steeped in history and although mostly ruined, you can still climb up onto the walls and turrets. Stokesay Castle is also well worth a visit, not so much a castle as a fortified manor house and Powis Castle at Welshpool is a must and of course, just down the road is our own Clun Castle. Go to Visit Wales for more castles and other attractions across the border in Wales.
Craven Arms doesn't at first glance seem like more than a town with a train station, but there are a few places of interest worth a visit. The Discovery Centre is definitely a good place to visit, particularly with children.
Montgomery is worth a visit; the town boasts another castle, a very good cafe, hotel and a treasure trove shop in the form of Bunners, an old fashioned hardware shop where you can buy just about anything!
Croft Castle and Berrington Hall are both National Trust properties with gardens, grounds and tea rooms or restaurants. Then, for gardens and house there is Hampton Court Castle (the original) just south of Leominster. In the cafe here you will find the same glass wall as we have in the wet room in Xidong! Hergest Croft Gardens at Kington and other gardens all within easy reach in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Powys.
Other places to visit are The Space Guard Centre near Knighton and the Judge's Lodgings in Presteigne.
There are many walks through the beautiful countryside. From Squire Farm itself you can walk out of the door and head off in three different directions along well marked footpaths. About three miles west is the Offa's Dyke path, which runs from near Chepstow in South Wales to Prestatyn in the north. Also not far away is the Jack Mytton Way and The Shropshire Way. Lots of information is provided by the Shropshire Ramblers, so do check out their website. John Harris’s Walking in England/Shropshire has more than 260 Shropshire walks to download for free, details of all the books, maps and walking groups in the county
Cyclists are also well catered for in Shropshire. Nearby Hopton Wood has its own downhill trail and footpaths. Most of the lanes are quiet and relatively traffic free and if you can bear the uphill slogs, there are plenty of downhills to enjoy! There is more sedate cycling available if you don't fancy the hills though, with quite easy routes to Bucknell and Knighton and even as far afield as Ludlow or Craven Arms.
If you want to go pony trekking, Underhill Riding Stables at Dolau (pronounced ‘Dolly’) is about 30 minutes drive from here south of Knighton. They are very friendly people and offer pony trekking for a couple of hours, a half day or a full day with pub lunch.
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