Craven Arms
Craven Arms (population 2,289) is a village and also civil church in Shropshire, England, on the A49 road as well as the Welsh Marches railway line, which link it north and southern to the larger towns of Shrewsbury as well as Ludlow specifically. The Heart of Wales railway line joins the Welsh Marches line at Craven Arms and also the community is served by Craven Arms train station. The community is enclosed to the north by the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, as well as to the south is the fortified manor house of Stokesay Castle. Craven Arms is a market town for the surrounding rural area, with a variety of shops, financial institutions, estate representatives, a grocery store, an abattoir and lots of commercial/light commercial companies. It is additionally a site visitor location, being home or neighboring to a number of tourist attractions, as well as being central for site visitors to the area of superior all-natural beauty. It defines itself as the "Gateway to the Marches".
