Craven Arms

Craven Arms is a relatively new town (for Shropshire), being only a small village called Newton on a map of 1695. The settlement grew when the railway station came during the mid to late 19th century, making it a railway town. Newton or Newtown is still the name for the southeastern part of the present day town, while the northern part is called Newington or New Inn (another small village which existed prior to the town). The town takes its name from the Craven Arms Hotel, which was situated on the junction of the A49 and B4368 roads, which in turn is named after the Earls of Craven (who owned nearby Stokesay Castle). The civil parish of Craven Arms was formed in 1987 by the merging of two…

]] There are two main visitor attractions in the Craven Arms civil parish. In the town there is the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, a centre featuring exhibits about the county's geography; and Stokesay Castle which is a fortified manor house located within the parish, just south of the town. Stella Mitchell's Land of Lost Content Museum, a collection of 20th-century memorabilia, also stood in the town until closed in 2023.