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Visiting Clun

 

Visiting the Clun and Red Lake Valleys

Clun and Chapel Lawn are within the Shropshire Hills National Landscape, consisting of forestry, upland mainly livestock farms, Iron Age forts, ancient woodlands and rivers with the Clun being a Special Area of Conservation to safeguard the freshwater pearl mussel.  Clun has a  Castle, Town Hall and Museum, Trinity Hospital alms houses, garden and chapel, Clun Bridge and St Georges Church. The River Redlake is a tributary and sub-catchment of the River Clun.  Chapel Lawn has Bryneddin an ancient wood which retains quillets of land and the impressive Caer Caradoc hill fort. The whole area is full of amazing walks from long trails to short wanders.

Sites for tourist information are,

  • Bishops Castle and Beyond, https://bishopscastleandbeyond.co.uk/
  • Chapel Lawn, https://chapel-lawn.co.uk/
  • Shopshire Hills National Landscape, https://www.shropshirehills-nl.org.uk/
  • Visit Shropshire,  https://www.visitshropshire.co.uk/
  • Visit Shropshire Hills,  http://visitshropshirehills.co.uk/
  • Tourist Information, Richard Bright Flowers by Clun Bridge, Tel: 01588 640541

Getting here

Bus Minsterly Motors 745 Pontesbury to Ludlow on Mondays & Fridays via Clun & Craven Arms

Train Craven Arms station 9 miles from Clun, Knighton Station 3 miles from Chapel Lawn

Taxi see online listings for Craven Arms taxis

Car parks 

  • Accessible and Blue Badge Parking – not designated in Clun
  • Clun Bridge/Castle Car park  plus EV points
  • Clun Memorial Hall Car park (with path to Castle)
  • Chapel Lawn Village Hall

Petrol stations nearest are Bishops Castle, Knighton, Leintwardine and Craven Arms

Public Toilets including an Accessible Toilet,  Clun Bridge Car Park . (Nearest Changing Place Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre in Craven Arms)

Hospitality and Food Shops

Activities

Children’s Play Ground & Playing Field at Clun Memorial Hall

Walks

  • Clun Valley and Borders 33 Favourite Walks Guidebook
  • Clun walk leaflets,
  • Clun is on the Shropshire Way, Jack Mytton Way, 3miles from Offa’s Dyke.
  • Clun Heritage Trail

What’s on

  • Buy The Clun Chronicle, available at local shops or by post
  • Facebook sites, Chapel Lawn & Redlake Valley  and Clun Valley 
  • Clun Valley Music https://www.clunvalleymusic.co.uk/
  • Arts Alive https://artsalive.co.uk/venues/chapel-lawn-village-hall

Accommodation check on,

  • above tourist websites
  • Airbnb, Booking.com, Hoseasons, Sykes Cottages etc.