Abberley Things to Do

This 80-hectare (200-acre) safari park is located less than a 60-minute drive from Birmingham. It will take you about an hour to drive through the animal reserves, where you can see elephants, rhino, giraffes, lions, monkeys, w... more

Parts of historic Harvington Hall, a popular stately home in Worcestershire, are medieval although most of it dates from the 16th century. Its owner in Elizabethan times, Humphrey Pakington, was a catholic and the hall contains... more

This historic house was once one of the finest stately homes in England. Today it is a ruin, but a spectacular one. Audio tours are available, allowing visitors to listen to imagined memories of serving staff, party hosts and t... more

A timber-framed building in Worcester, less than an hour's drive from Birmingham, houses a museum dedicated to the history of England's great civil conflict. This was the royalist headquarters at the Battle of Worcester, which... more

This is beautiful Shropshire hill country to the east of Ludlow - a market town well worth a visit in itself - and a short drive from Birmingham. The hills have long been popular with day trippers from the city and there are lo... more

The regional transport museum for Birmingham and the Midlands began in 1977. It consists of two large halls filled with collections of over 80 buses and coaches from all over the Midlands, including the biggest collection of pr... more

A great Palladian (or neoclassical) house, Hagley Hall was the last of its kind built in England. It was completed in 1760 and boasts remarkable Italian plaster work and rococo decoration, and holds a superb collection of paint... more

Kinver Edge is a sandstone ridge covered in heathland, from which there are views across Shropshire and the West Midlands. Curiosities include the "rock houses" in which people lived until the 1950s. One of these was rebuilt fo... more

Between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth, to the west of Birmingham, the Severn Valley Railway is a steam buff's paradise. Steam trains run through picturesque countryside throughout the year, although the most frequent services op... more