Attingham Country House And Estate. Shropshire.
Attingham Park is a country house and estate in Shropshire, England. Located near the village of Atcham, on the B4380 Shrewsbury to Wellington road. It is owned by the National Trust. It is a Grade I listed building.
Attingham Park was built in 1785 for Noel Hill, 1st Baron Berwick, who received his title in 1784 during the premiership of Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger. Noel Hill was a politician who aided William Pitt in the restructuring of the East India Company. Noel Hill already owned a house on the site of Attingham Park called Tern Hall, but with money he received along with his title he commissioned the architect George Steuart to design a new and grander house to be build around the original hall. The new country house encompassed the old property entirely, and once completed it was given the name Attingham Hall.
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Places to see in ( Shropshire - UK )
Places to see in ( Shropshire - UK )
Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands of England, bordering Powys and Wrexham in Wales to the west and north-west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, Worcestershire to the south-east and Herefordshire to the south. Shropshire Council was created in 2009, a unitary authority taking over from the previous county council and five district councils. The borough of Telford and Wrekin has been a separate unitary authority since 1998 but continues to be included in the ceremonial county.
The county's population and economy is centred on five towns: the county town of Shrewsbury, which is culturally and historically important and close to the centre of the county; Telford, a new town in the east which was constructed around a number of older towns, most notably Wellington, Dawley and Madeley, which is today the most populous; and Oswestry in the north-west, Bridgnorth just to the south of Telford, and Ludlow in the south. The county has many market towns, including Whitchurch in the north, Newport north-east of Telford and Market Drayton in the north-east of the county.
The Ironbridge Gorge area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, covering Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale and a part of Madeley. There are other historic industrial sites in the county, such as at Shrewsbury, Broseley, Snailbeach and Highley, as well as the Shropshire Union Canal.
The Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty covers about a quarter of the county, mainly in the south. Shropshire is one of England's most rural and sparsely populated counties, with a population density of 136/km2 (350/sq mi). The Wrekin is one of the most famous natural landmarks in the county, though the highest hills are the Clee Hills, Stiperstones and the Long Mynd. Wenlock Edge is another significant geographical and geological landmark. In the low-lying northwest of the county overlapping the border with Wales is the Fenn's, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses National Nature Reserve, one of the most important and best preserved bogs in Britain. The River Severn, Great Britain's longest river, runs through the county, exiting into Worcestershire via the Severn Valley. Shropshire is landlocked and with an area of 3,487 square kilometres (1,346 sq mi) is England's largest inland county. The county flower is the round-leaved sundew.
Shropshire is connected to the rest of the United Kingdom via a number of road and rail links. Historically, rivers and later canals in the county were used for transport also, although their use in transport is now significantly reduced. The county's main transport hub is Shrewsbury, through which many significant roads and railways pass and join.
Alot to see in ( Shropshire - UK ) such as :
Adcote nr.Shrewsbury
Aqualate Hall, Newport
Attingham Park, Atcham
Benthall Hall, Broseley
Blists Hill, Madeley
Boscobel House, nr. Wolverhampton
Broseley Pipe Museum, Broseley
Bridgnorth Cliff Railway, Bridgnorth
Bridgnorth Castle, Bridgnorth
Brown Clee Hill, South Shropshire
Burford House
Caer Caradoc, nr. Church Stretton
Cambrian Heritage Railway, Oswestry and Llynclys
Chetwynd Park, Newport
Cardingmill Valley, Church Stretton
Clun Castle, Clun
Flounder's Folly, nr. Craven Arms
Fordhall castle and farm
Haughmond Hill, nr. Shrewsbury
Haughmond Abbey
Hawkstone Park, North Shropshire
Hopton Castle, nr. Craven Arms
Ironbridge Gorge
Kynaston's Cave, nr. Nesscliffe
Langley Chapel, nr. Shrewsbury
The Long Mynd, Church Stretton
Ludlow Castle, Ludlow
Mitchell's Fold, nr. Chirbury
Moreton Corbet Castle, Moreton Corbet
Newport Guildhall, Newport
Offa's Dyke Path, Welsh Marches
Puleston Cross, Newport
Severn Valley Railway, Bridgnorth
Shrewsbury Abbey, Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury Castle, Shrewsbury
Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), South Shropshire
Shropshire Union Canal
Snailbeach nr. Shrewsbury
South Telford Heritage Trail, Telford
St Laurence Church, Ludlow
The Stiperstones, nr Pontesbury
Stokesay Castle, nr Craven Arms
Sunnycroft, Wellington
Telford Steam Railway, Telford
Titterstone Clee Hill, nr. Ludlow
Wenlock Edge, Much Wenlock
Wenlock Priory
White Ladies Priory
Whittington Castle, nr. Oswestry
The Wrekin (and Ercall) nr. Wellington
Wroxeter, nr. Atcham
( Shropshire - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Shropshire . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Shropshire - UK
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Attingham Park's National Trust Working Holidays
Ever wondered what a National Trust working holiday is like? See behind the scenes with a group of eight volunteers on a working holiday in Attingham Park's Walled Garden...
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(Video produced by Redhead Business Films and featuring Attingham staff and volunteers)
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Bluebells bloom at Attingham Park
Bluebells at Attingham Park, Atcham, Shrewsbury.
The Mytton & Mermaid, Atcham
The Mytton & Mermaid Hotel, Atcham near Shrewsbury is a great place to get married. This lovely spring wedding shows how relaxed and happy your wedding will be with some great backdrops for photography and video. Filmed by Martyn Chidlow of M. C. Video who also offers photography services with 64 Photography.
Location Feature - Attingham Park (Part 1)
Another location feature - this time, the footage is from a visit to Attingham Park this month. Attingham Park, near Shrewsbury, appears in the novel as a future HQ for the Ironsides and some of the action takes place in the vicinity of the park itself. Attingham is owned by the National Trust and is well worth visiting if you're interested in a nice day out.
The Top Ten Things To See At Attingham Park!
Thinking about visiting Attingham Park in Shropshire soon? Here are ten things not to miss...
1. The Monkey Music Box, a gift to celebrate a marriage
2. The Cedar Trees of Lebanon, planted in the late 1700s
3. The Dining Room, set for a regency dinner!
4. The Walled Garden, and Attingham's fresh produce
5. The Picture Gallery, designed by John Nash in 1805
6. Veteran Trees
7. The Boudoir, its significant decorative scheme is based on designs of 1775 by Angelica Kauffman
8. The Fallow Deer, in the deer park
9. The Octagon Room, representing the climax of the masculine suite of rooms
10. Views over the River, have a romantic moment, by the weeping willow.
You can see more of Attingham's intriguing objects and hidden gems on our collection pages, at:
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Video produced by Susan Jones, Redhead Business Films
There is so much to do in the historic regency manor house and on the extensive park and estate, with it's walled garden, ancient oak trees and deer park.
Attingham Park aerial video
Aerial video of National Trust property Attingham Park in Shropshire.
Quarry in Shrewsbury
Quarry in Shrewsbury
'Lost' Shropshire WW2 airfield identified with National Trust help
A conservation charity has helped a woman identify a lost World War Two airfield where her father flew.
Elizabeth Halls, from Herefordshire, is making a tour of 60 aerodromes where her father, Flight Lieutenant Bryan Wild, landed Defiant planes.
Mr Wild died in 2012 and Mrs Halls used his memoirs to identify the sites, one of which, named Uppingdon, she had struggled to find.
But the National Trust believes the site was at Uckington in Shropshire.
Six-month tour
Mrs Halls, from Stansbatch near Leominster, enlisted the help of an aviation historian to edit her father's memoirs, which have now been published.
She has embarked on a sponsored six-month tour of the airfields in a 1935 Singer Le Mans sports car, similar to one her father owned during the war, to raise money for the RAF Benevolent Fund.
While in Shropshire, she will also be visiting an old RAF airfield at High Ercall, where her father was stationed for two weeks in 1942.
Dad talks about Uppingdon Airfield in his notes, but although there is a village of that name, I can't find any mention of an airfield, she said.
I do know that it was next to Attingham Park, which is where the US base Atcham was, so it may be that my father is referring to Atcham, but I would love to find out for sure.
Bob Thurston, countryside parks and gardens manager at Attingham Park said he believed Mrs Halls was almost certainly referring to Uckington, at the south east edge of the Atcham airfield.
One of the runways was on Uckington farm fields, he said.
To confuse matters, there are also the villages of Uppington and Uffington nearby, though they had no airfield or airfield buildings associated with them.
Attingham Park Volunteers
Mar Dixon interviews Attingham Park Volunteer Co-ordinator Kellie Scott
Ideas for Your Visit to Attingham Park...
Never visited Attingham before? Want to know about all of the things you can do here? Then this is the perfect video for you!
Attingham Park is not just a popular tourist attraction in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. Its also the National Trust's fifth most popular property!
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Video produced by Susan Jones, Redhead Business Films
Battlefield Heritage Park
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Battlefield Heritage Park is a country park situated north of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, in the area known as Battlefield.It marks the supposed site of the 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury fought between King Henry IV and English rebel nobleman Henry Percy.
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From Plot to Plate at Attingham Park! (National Trust)
An insight into how the Walled Garden at Attingham Park, Shropshire, provides fresh salad for its Mansion Tearoom and Carriage House Cafe, even throughout the winter...
Wired for Fruit Trees - The Walled Garden at Attingham Park
New wires being installed at Attingham Park's walled garden. Next a range of fruit trees will be planted around the gardens edge, trailing up the wired walls.
(Work carried out by Mark Sayfritz at estatecontracting.co.uk
Video produced by Redhead Business Films and presented by Katherine Bone)
Introducing 'The Stables: Reworking a Grand Design' project
The Stables: Reworking a Grand Design is a project we're undertaking to transform your visitor experience and improve our visitor facilities. Work has now begun and the builders have moved in. Through the project, we will be installing a Biomass Boiler, extending the Carriage House Cafe and building a new Visitor Reception. Work will continue until spring 2017.
We'll be keeping you up to date with regular social media posts, website updates and short videos.