My guidebook Slow Travel: Shropshire for the award-winning Bradt Travel Guides came out in February 2016 – three days before my second baby. The second edition was published in February 2020 … and we all know what happened shortly after that.
I’m working on a third edition now, which is due out in October 2025. I hope this one can have a launch party!
The only guidebook covering the whole of Shropshire, my book embraces the slow travel movement to offer an in-depth tour of this quietly romantic county. From AE Housman’s ‘Blue Remembered Hills’ to the UNESCO World Heritage site of Ironbridge Gorge and Much Wenlock, birthplace of the modern-day Olympics, I take you along canal paths, through forests, into castle ruins, churches and real ale pubs – sharing Shropshire secrets alongside my fresh perspectives on better-known attractions. The book is geared towards sustainable tourism, with an emphasis on car-free travel, local produce and unusual accommodation.
“Bradt has always preferred a ‘slow’ pace of travel. Ours is a sedate, measured approach which is all about getting under the skin of a place so that you leave feeling as if you really know it and haven’t just scratched the surface. The slow travel movement follows in the steps of the slow food movement; it is local, organic, a reaction against clone towns and mass marketing. Our series of Slow guides to British regions is the foremost of its kind, opening up Britain’s special places in a way that no other guides do. Discover the spots that aren’t normally publicised, meet the locals, find out where the best food can be enjoyed (and from where it’s sourced), indulge in a little cultural foraging and discover the Britain you never knew existed with our expert local authors” – Bradt Travel Guides.
Praise for Bradt’s Slow Travel series
“Slow guides take time to point the way”. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall “Eye-opening and wonderful”. India Knight, the Sunday Times Magazine
Bradt has always preferred a ‘slow’ pace of travel. Ours is a sedate, measured approach which is all about getting under the skin of a place so that you leave feeling as if you really know it and haven’t just scratched the surface. The slow travel movement follows in the steps of the slow food movement; it is local, organic, a reaction against clone towns and mass marketing. Our series of Slow guides to British regions is the foremost of its kind, opening up Britain’s special places in a way that no other guides do. Discover the spots that aren’t normally publicised, meet the locals, find out where the best food can be enjoyed (and from where it’s sourced), indulge in a little cultural foraging and discover the Britain you never knew existed with our expert local authors. – See more at: http://www.bradtguides.com/series/slow-guides#sthash.hJfByh7t.dpuf
Bradt has always preferred a ‘slow’ pace of travel. Ours is a sedate, measured approach which is all about getting under the skin of a place so that you leave feeling as if you really know it and haven’t just scratched the surface. The slow travel movement follows in the steps of the slow food movement; it is local, organic, a reaction against clone towns and mass marketing. Our series of Slow guides to British regions is the foremost of its kind, opening up Britain’s special places in a way that no other guides do. Discover the spots that aren’t normally publicised, meet the locals, find out where the best food can be enjoyed (and from where it’s sourced), indulge in a little cultural foraging and discover the Britain you never knew existed with our expert local authors. – See more at: http://www.bradtguides.com/series/slow-guides#sthash.hJfByh7t.dpuf
Bradt has always preferred a ‘slow’ pace of travel. Ours is a sedate, measured approach which is all about getting under the skin of a place so that you leave feeling as if you really know it and haven’t just scratched the surface. The slow travel movement follows in the steps of the slow food movement; it is local, organic, a reaction against clone towns and mass marketing. Our series of Slow guides to British regions is the foremost of its kind, opening up Britain’s special places in a way that no other guides do. Discover the spots that aren’t normally publicised, meet the locals, find out where the best food can be enjoyed (and from where it’s sourced), indulge in a little cultural foraging and discover the Britain you never knew existed with our expert local authors. – See more at: http://www.bradtguides.com/series/slow-guides#sthash.hJfByh7t.dpuf
Bradt has always preferred a ‘slow’ pace of travel. Ours is a sedate, measured approach which is all about getting under the skin of a place so that you leave feeling as if you really know it and haven’t just scratched the surface. The slow travel movement follows in the steps of the slow food movement; it is local, organic, a reaction against clone towns and mass marketing. Our series of Slow guides to British regions is the foremost of its kind, opening up Britain’s special places in a way that no other guides do. Discover the spots that aren’t normally publicised, meet the locals, find out where the best food can be enjoyed (and from where it’s sourced), indulge in a little cultural foraging and discover the Britain you never knew existed with our expert local authors. – See more at: http://www.bradtguides.com/series/slow-guides#sthash.hJfByh7t.dpuf
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