1 Best Sight in Stratford-upon-Avon and the Heart of England, England

If you head south of Shrewsbury on B4380 for around five miles, you can see, rising on the left, the Wrekin, a strange, wooded, conical, extinct volcano that is 1,335 feet high and which may have been the inspiration behind Middle Earth in the Lord of the Rings series of books; J. R. R. Tolkien lived nearby. The walk to the summit, which has panoramic views, is about five miles. A few miles farther on, you enter the wooded gorge of the River Severn.