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Attractions in the West Midlands Gloucestershire Shropshire Staffordshire Warwickshire Worchestershire and Herefordshire West Midlands WEST MIDLANDS The area includes a very famous town, Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare, one of Britain's greatest poets and playwrights. He was greatly inspired by the charming Elizabethan villages and country estates in the area that is now called "Shakespeare Country". The border country with Wales offers dramatic views, villages with black and white buildings and Norman castles built during the time of fierce battles between the English and the Welsh. It is a great place for outdoor activities particularly painting, pony-trekking, canoeing or ballooning. The Malvern Hills near the cathedral city of Worcester are ideal for walkers and cyclists. In the north, the area known as "The Potteries" is the home of Britain's china industry with world famous manufacturers such as Wedgwood and Royal Doulton based around Stoke-on-Trent. A short drive away is Alton Towers, Britain's top theme park. Gloucestershire Attractions in Gloucestershire: Barnsley House Garden, near Cirencester Berkeley Castle, off A38 btw Bristol/Gloucester Birdland Park and Gardens, near Cheltenham Bourton House Garden, Bourton-on-the-Hill Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham Clearwell Caves, Royal Forest of Dean Cotswold Farm Park, Cheltenham Cotswold Water Park, nr Cirencester Edward Jenner Museum, Berkeley Gloucester Leisure cruises, Gloucester Great Western Railway Museum, Coleford Holst Birthplace Museum, Cheltenham Jenner Museum, Berkeley Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music, Northleach Kelmscott Manor, near Lechlade Lodge Park, Cheltenham Lydney Park Gardens, Lydney Miserden Park Gardens, nr Stroud National Birds of Prey Centre, Newent National Waterways Museum, Gloucester Docks Nature in Art Museum, Twigworth Owlpen Manor, Dursley Painswick Rococo Garden, Painswick Pittville Pump Room (The), Cheltenham Rodmarton Manor, Cirencester Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Dursley Stanway Water Garden, Stanway Sudeley Castle & Gardens, near Cheltenham Westonbirt, The National Arboretum, near Tetbury Woodchester Mansion, Nympsfield
ShropshireAttractions in Shropshire: Adcote House, Shrewsbury Attingham Park, Shrewsbury Burford House Gardens, Tenbury Wells Coleham Pumping Station, Shrewsbury Dudmaston Hall, Bridgnorth Hodnet Hall Gardens, Market Drayton Hoo Farm Animal Kingdom, Telford Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Ironbridge,Telford Rowley's House Museum, Shrewsbury Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford Shipton Hall, Much Wenlock Shrewsbury Castle and Shropshire Regimental Museum, Shrewsbury Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, Shrewsbury Walcot Hall, Lydbury North Weston Park, Weston-under-Lizard
StaffordshireAttractions in Staffordshire: Alton Towers, Stoke on Trent Ancient High House (The), Stafford Ash End House Children's Farm, Tamworth Aynsley China Visitor Centre, Stoke-on-Trent Bass Museum (The), Burton-upon-Trent Biddulph Grange Garden, nr Stoke on Trent Blackbrook Zoological Park, nr Leek Churchill Tableware, Corbridge Drayton Manor Park and Zoo, Tamworth Erasmus Darwin Centre, Lichfield Gladstone Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent Izaak Walton's Cottage, Stafford Lichfield Cathedral, Lichfield Lichfield Heritage Centre, Lichfield Middleton Hall, Tamworth Museum of Cannock Chase, Cannock Royal Doulton Visitor Centre, Burslem Spode Visitor Centre and Museum, Stoke-on-Trent Stafford Castle & Visitor Centre, Stafford Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Lichfield Tamworth Castle, Tamworth Tutbury Crystal, Burton-on-Trent
WarwickshireAttractions in Warwickshire: Arbury Hall, Nuneaton Ann Hathaway’s Cottage, Stratford-upon-Avon Charlecote Park, Warwick Coughton Court, near Alcester Hall’s Croft, Stratford-upon-Avon Hatton Country World, Warwick Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon Mary Arden’s House, Stratford-upon-Avon Nash House and New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon Ragley Hall, Alcester Rugby School Museum, Rugby Ryton Organic Gardens, nr Coventry Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford Butterfly Farm, Stratford-upon-Avon Twycross Zoo, Twycross Warwick Castle, Warwick
Herefordshire and WorchestershireAttractions in Herefordshire and Worchestershire: Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire Bewdley Museum, Bewdley, Worcestershire Bodenham Arboretum, Kidderminster, Worcestershire Birmingham & Midland Museum of Transport, Wythall Broadway Teddy Bear Museum, Broadway Broadway Tower & Animal Park, Broadway, Worcestershire Bronte Porcelain, Malvern Link, Worcestershire Burton Court, Eardisland, Leominster Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, Herefordshire Elgar Birthplace Museum, Lower Broadheath Hagley Hall, Hagley, Worcestershire Hanbury Hall, Droitwich, Worcestershire Harvington Hall, Kidderminster, Worcestershire Hereford Cathedral, Hereford Hereford Cider Museum, Hereford Hergest Croft Gardens, Kington, Herefordshire Little Malvern Court, nr Malvern, Worcestershire Mamble Craft Centre, near Bewdley, Worcestershire Moccas Court, Moccas Museum of Worcester Porcelain (The), Worcester, Worcestershire Royal Worcester Visitor Centre, Worcester, Worcestershire Severn Valley Railway, Bewdley, Worcestershire West Midlands Safari Park, Bewdley, Worcestershire Worcester Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, Worcester Worchestershire County Museum, Kidderminster
West Midlands Attractions in West Midlands: Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Stoke Heath Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham Black Country Living Museum, Dudley Blakesley Hall Museum, Dudley Broadfield House Glass Museum, Kingswinford Dudley Zoo & Castle, Dudley Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Lunt Roman Fort, Coventry National Sea Life Centre, Birmingham Soho House Museum, Handsworth West Midlands Safari Park, Bewdley Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
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