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South Shropshire is ideal walking, cycling and riding country with varied terrain to suit all levels of ability. Cycle hire
can be arranged locally.
Nearby Walcot
Stables offer lessons and hacks.
Bishop's Castle has an active tennis club, 2 bowling greens and a sports
and recreation centre (SpaRC) where there is a gymnasium, swimming pool
and squash courts.
The
Long Mynd is popular with birdwatchers and recently red kites have
reappeared.
Shropshire fishing Trout
and coarse fishing is available at White Grit, about ten miles away
on A488 between Bishop's Castle and Minsterley.
3 trout fishing pools stocked with blues, browns and rainbows to 19lbs.
2 coarse fishing pools consisting of a pleasure pool with 20 pegs
and a carp specimen pool with 25 pegs with carp to 25 lbs plus. There
is
a fishing lodge with tackle, bait, refreshments, good toilet facilities
, disabled access and a small caravan and camping site. The whole
site is set below Corndon Hill in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Open
all year.
There is very active hang
gliding, paragliding and gliding on
the Long Mynd, with the Midland Gliding Club. The area is
also popular for balloon
flights - views of the Shropshire countryside
are even better from the air than from ground level. Launching takes place
at Linley Hall, a few miles away and also at Bishop's Castle.
Bishop's
Castle has an active tennis club, 2 bowling greens and a sports and
recreation centre (SpaRC) where there is a gymnasium, swimming pool
and squash
courts.
The
Onny valley is world
famous for geology and fossils. The
Shropshire landscape has
some of the oldest rocks in Britain dating from the Pre-Cambrian
epoch.
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