Accessible countryside sites for people with disabilities

The Countryside Access Team has produced a new leaflet entitled The Wheelchair Users Guide to Accessible Countryside Sites and Trails in Shropshire and the Borderlands.

The guide contains information on Countryside Sites and Trails which can be used by someone in a wheelchair, families with pushchairs and other people with disabilities. Although not a fully comprehensive guide it details several locations throughout the local districts/boroughs within the County as well as sites which border Shropshire.

In most cases, each site has been visited by a wheelchair user to ensure that the information provided is accurate and informative to ensure that you know what to expect upon arrival.

This leaflet is the second in a series of three the first having been produced by a local couple who provide information on disabled holidays.

The original guide provides information on Accessible Tourist Attractions for Shropshire and the guide to accessible Activities in Shropshire and the Borders is also available.

Wherever possible the Countryside Access Team is keen to ensure that Shropshire's Countryside is more accessible. This can mean replacing stiles with gates on the public rights of way network and dedicating several of our Countryside Sites as Open Access Land which will allow us to improve access.

If you are interested in obtaining a copy of the Accessible Sites and Trails leaflet a downloadable version is available at the bottom of this page or to obtain details on the other leaflets in the series please visit the disabled holiday website by following the link on this page.

Copies of the guides will also be available at all local Visitor Information Centres and distributed at a number of roadshows.

We hope you enjoy your time in our wonderful Countryside and would appreciate any comments you may have on the sites included within the guide or the guide itself. You can do this directly through this website (follow the Countryside services feedback link) or complete the feedback forms included in the downloadable leaflet - follow the link on this page.