Our home county. We are based in St Martin’s, 11 minutes from Oswestry, with Shrewsbury and Telford within the hour.
Shrewsbury is 24 miles from our base, about 35 min on a clear road.
Oswestry and the north of the county
Oswestry, Gobowen, Whittington, Weston Rhyn, Selattyn, Ellesmere, Whitchurch, Wem and Market Drayton. From here Manchester Airport is about an hour and ten minutes, Birmingham an hour and a half.
Oswestry to Manchester Airport · Oswestry to Birmingham Airport
Shrewsbury and Telford
Shrewsbury to Manchester · Shrewsbury to Birmingham · Shrewsbury to Liverpool · Telford to Manchester
Where we drive in Shropshire
| Place | What it is | By road from our base | Typical time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweeney Hall Hotel | Wedding venue, hotel | 8 miles | 14 min |
| Sleap Airfield (Shropshire Aero Club) | General aviation airfield | 18 miles | 32 min |
| Rowton Castle | Wedding venue, hotel | 23 miles | 34 min |
| Combermere Abbey | Wedding venue | 21 miles | 34 min |
| Albright Hussey Manor | Wedding venue, hotel | 19 miles | 35 min |
| Shrewsbury Flower Show (Quarry Park) | Major event | 23 miles | 35 min |
| Hawkstone Park Hotel & Golf | Golf resort, hotel | 20 miles | 36 min |
| Hawkstone Hall & Gardens | Wedding venue | 21 miles | 44 min |
| Telford (Hadley Park / Stafford Park business parks) | Business park | 39 miles | 49 min |
| Harper Adams University | University | 36 miles | 54 min |
| Walcot Hall | Wedding venue | 38 miles | 1 hr |
| Ludlow Racecourse | Racecourse | 48 miles | 1 hr 7 min |
Worth knowing
- Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, on the River Severn, with 76,782 people at the 2021 census.
- The Ironbridge Gorge, south of Telford, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as ‘The Birthplace of Industry’.
- Ludlow is a market town in south Shropshire, 28 miles south of Shrewsbury on the A49; its racecourse is at Bromfield, with a free race-day shuttle from Ludlow station.
- Shrewsbury Flower Show is held every August in the Quarry park.
- Telford is Shropshire’s main employment centre, with business parks including Stafford Park, Hortonwood and Halesfield.