The Old Station

“Luxurious bedrooms in a charming converted railway station” - AA Inspector

LOCATION

SHREWSBURY, SHROPSHIRE

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This former railway station, built in 1847, is set in the heart of the Shropshire countryside yet just four miles from Shrewsbury. The railway theme runs throughout the bedrooms which come in a range of shapes and sizes. Stained-glass windows are a feature throughout the house. Breakfast is served in the well-furnished dining room – some tables are located on what was previously the station platform. A garden and a small lounge are provided and there is ample parking.

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The Old Station
Leaton, Bomere Heath, SHREWSBURY, SY4 3AP

Features

Rooms
  • Rooms 6
  • Family bedrooms: 4
  • Bedrooms ground: 1
Children
  • Children welcome
  • Children's portions or menu
Facilities
  • Free TV
  • Wifi
  • Lounge with TV
  • Open parking
Accessibility
  • Accessible bedrooms: 1
Food
  • Dinner Served

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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