This inn was originally part of the Much Wenlock estate and its current name and heraldic shield…
Gaskell Arms
“Very well located for the amenities of the pretty town of Much Wenlock.” - AA Inspector
MUCH WENLOCK, SHROPSHIRE
Our Inspector's view
The Gaskell Arms is a 17th-century former coaching inn with exposed beams and log fires in the public areas, and much original charm and character is retained throughout. In addition to the lounge bar and restaurant offering a wide range of meals and snacks, there is a small bar which is popular with locals. Well-equipped bedrooms, some located in stylishly renovated stables, provide good standards of comfort.
Facilities – at a glance
Afternoon tea
Dogs welcome
Family rooms
Outdoor parking
Wheelchair accessible
Features
- En-suite rooms: 14
- Family rooms: 3
- Bedrooms Ground: 5
- Free TV
- Broadband available
- WiFi available
- Children welcome
- Cots provided
- High chairs
- Children's portions or menu
- Outdoor parking spaces: 40
- Accessible bedrooms: 5
- Steps for wheelchair: 1
- Single room, minimum price: £79
- Double room, minimum price: £99
- Open all year
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About the area
Discover Shropshire
Perhaps nowhere else in England will you find a county so deeply rural and with so much variety as Shropshire. Choose a clear day, climb to the top of The Wrekin, and look down on that ‘land of lost content’ so wistfully evoked by A E Housman. Peer through your binoculars and trace the course of Britain’s longest river as the Severn sweeps through the county, from the Breidden Hills to Wyre Forest, slicing Shropshire in two. To the north is a patchwork of dairy fields, hedgerows, copses and crops, broken at intervals by rugged sandstone ridges such as Grinshill or Nesscliffe, and dissected by a complex network of canals.
Spilling over the border into neighbouring Cheshire and North Wales is the unique meres and mosses country, with serenely smooth lakes glinting silver, interspersed with russet-tinged expanses of alder-fringed peat bog, where only the cry of the curlew disturbs the silence. South of the Severn lies the Shropshire Hills AONB. It’s only when you walk Wenlock Edge that you fully discover what a magical place it is – glorious woods and unexpectedly steep slopes plunge to innumerable secret valleys, meadows, streams and farmhouses, all tucked away, invisible from the outside world.
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