Places To Visit and Things To Do
Intersting Spots at Tugford Farm
We have the largest Ancient Ash Tree in Shropshire, with its girth of 6.8m it is also one of the ten largest in The British Isles.
View the Sheela Na Gigs carvings on either side of the main door of St Catherines Church, Tugford. They are two of very few quasi – erotic carvings found around the country in Norman Churches.
Nordy Ring - An iron age hill fort on the Brown Clee Hill
Heath Chapel - Built in the 12th century. A perfect example of a small Norman Church.
Heath Medievel village remains covering 4 hecters.
Local Festivals
Ludlow Medieval Christmas Fayre. www.ludlowmedievalchristmas.co.uk 26th & 27th Nov 2011
Ludlow Spring Festival - celebrating great beers, bangers, bread, music and more. www.ludlowspringfestival.co.uk 12th & 13th May 2012
The Ludlow Festival - Open air Shakespeare plus a range of other supporting events. www.ludlowfestival.co.uk 23rd June to 8th July 2012
Ludlow Marches Food & Drink Festival - a feast of a festival. www.foodfestival.co.uk 7th to 9th September 2012
Local Towns
Craven Arms - 9 miles
- Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre
- Nearest Train Station
- Stokesay Castle
Ludlow - 10 miles
- Annual fairs and festivals
- Ludlow Castle
- Michelin-starred restaurants
- Racecourse
- Regular markets
- River Teme
- South Shropshire Leisure Centre
Church Stretton - 11 miles
- Hill walking on Long Mynd and Caer Caradoc
- Acton Scott Working Farm Museum
- Cardingmill Valley
Much Wenlock - 12 miles
- Antique Market
- 12th Century Priory
Bridgnorth - 13 miles
- Severn Valley Railway
- Cliff Railway
Further Afield
- Clun
- Bishops Castle
- Ironbridge - Ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums
- Shrewsbury
Local leisure pursuits
- Horse riding
- Cycling
- Walking
- Fishing
- Golf
Blog - the latest from Tugford Farm...
It's warmer! The sun has been shining and the horses rugs are off again. Everything is growing fast and the hedgerows are filling with blue bells and the beginnings of cow parsley. Our pair of resident red kites have been seen regularly too. Widget and Big Bill (our terriers) have been busy patrolling the road side banks by the farm house looking for rabbits but since Billy is pretty useless the rabbits have the last laugh I reckon. They come back a nice shade of pink due to the colour of our red clay soil. The lambs are growing rapidly and doing really well. The milling wheat we grow is looking well and the spring beans are popping up. Everywhere around us is yellow with oil seed rape in full flower, a godsend for the bees who are busy looking for food. Hay making this year will be later than usual as we haven't had the warmth to make the grass grow but nature has a way of evening everything out and I'm sure there will be plenty of fodder for the animals this coming winter one way or another.
18th May 2012
