Accessible countryside sites for people with disabilities

The Countryside Access Team in 2006/7 produced a leaflet entitled The Wheelchair Users Guide to Accessible Countryside Sites and Trails in Shropshire and the Borderlands in conjunction with a local couple who run Disabled Holiday Information.

This leaflet has since been updated and the second edition has been produced by Disabled Holiday Information with support from O2.

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 within the County as well as some 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 four, which include:-.

• The Wheelchair User's Guide to Accessible Tourist Attractions for Shropshire.
• The Wheelchair User's Guide to Accessible Countryside Sites and Trails in Shropshire and the borderlands.
• The Wheelchair User's Guide to Accessible Activities in and around Shropshire.
• The Wheelchair User's Guide to Accessible Transport in Shropshire.

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 on 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 outdoor recreation feedback link on the left handside of this page) or complete the feedback forms included in the downloadable leaflet - follow the link on this page.

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