News & Features
The Museum has been refurbished with financial assistance from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Shropshire Council and opened to the public on 7 February.
Dozens of poets will be reciting, cart-wheeling, drinking tea and busking as the town celebrates the country’s creativity and variety with the Wenlock Poetry Festival 2012.
A selection of artefacts from the Wemlock Olympian Society are now on display in the British Museum as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
A new book which tells the tale of the Wenlock Olympian Games through the eyes of a piglet has been launched.
Much Wenlock, home of the Wenlock Olympian Games, has been confirmed as one of the Shropshire locations the Olympic Torch will pass through on its way to the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Shropshire Hills AONB Partnership has confirms they are to operate a new Shuttle bus service between Much Wenlock, Acton Scott Historic Working Farm and Church Stretton.
The announcement was made at the Society’s AGM on Thursday 17th November.
The Edge Arts Centre, William Brookes School and Shropshire Council have been successful in gaining major funding for an exciting dance and film project in conjunction with next year’s Olympic and Paralympic celebrations.
The 2012 Much Wenlock Festival was officially launched by renowned actress and local resident Mrs Gabrielle Drake at a press evening at the Twenty Twenty Gallery in Much Wenlock on Thursday 25th August.
Wenlock Olympian Society and Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust are proud to support this spectacular concert taking place on Saturday 7th July 2012 celebrating the startling achievements in sport, industry and the arts across the Midlands.
Much Wenlock has been awarded £520,800 by the Heritage Lottery Fund for improvements to the town’s museum.
On your starting blocks! Vamos Theatre, in association with The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, presents its new touring production, Much Ado About Wenlock, a show about health and sports, a reforming doctor, and a runaway chicken!
The history of Much Wenlock is being brought to life in a book made up of photographs taken straight from the albums of the residents themselves.
Five new circular walks are created and Much Wenlock is granted Walkers are Welcome status.
Catherine Beale tells the story of the Wenlock Olympian Games and their influence on the modern Olympics
A flavour of the birthplace of the modern Olympic Games can now be tasted across the globe following the launch of Wenlock Hampers.
