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Did You Know?

The county town of Shrewsbury is truly ancient – it’s full of wobbly-looking Tudor buildings and tiny dark passages.

Shropshire is home to the British Hedgehog Preservation Society. Founded in 1982 the Society offers help and advice to those with sick, injured or orphaned hedgehogs. 

The County is also no stranger to nationally recognised awards, Ludlow has once again been confirmed as Shropshire's gastronomic capital with its inclusion in the Michelin Guide 2006. For the 12th year running Mr Underhill's has its Michelin star. Not forgetting the UK's Caravan Park of the Year which is also in Shropshire and can be found at Oxon Hall Touring Park in Shrewsbury.

English Parliament first gathered in Acton Burnell, and not London as most people think. Edward I brought his parliament together at a barn in the area, the ruins of which can still be seen today.

Dunstable began life as a small Roman town which they called Durocobrivis. Long before the Romans came to Britain there was

Newport in Shropshire recorded the coldest temperature ever in England on 10th January 1982 :  minus 26 degrees centigrade

Standing tall outside Shropshire County Council's HQ at Shire Hall in Shrewsbury, Lord Hill's column is the tallest Doric-style column in the world, standing at 133ft tall.

The world's first theme park also belongs to Shropshire with Hawkstone Park & Follies taking the title. Opened in 1748, it's a magical landscape of caves, cliffs, grottoes and ravines. The original Chronicles of Narnia were filmed here. And if that's not enough the Holy Grail was found here too!

Shrewsbury, the county town, some may know that it is the birthplace of that evolutionary thinker Charles Darwin but may be less aware that it has the world's tallest town crier standing a mere 7 feet 2 inches in his socks.

Shropshire is home to the world’s first skyscraper. Ditherington Flax Mill, on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, was the first multi-storey iron-framed building – and therefore the forerunner of every skyscraper and tower block in the world.

Charles Darwin is Shropshire most famous son and was recently voted as one of the greatest Britons.