It’s rather strange how most people want to take a break to get away from it all and then end up following the crowds.
If you are of an independent mind, you look at what everyone else is doing and then do the opposite. On the face of it, Market Drayton is pretty unexceptional: true, it is located in the heart of some pretty stunning countryside but you really need to study the map to realise how much it can offer.
As you would expect from our Shropshire address, look south and you are within half an hour of the world famous Ironbridge Gorge museums. But look west and you are just a stone’s throw from Chester and just a few miles to the east, you have the history of The Potteries and Josiah Wedgwood et al.
No wonder to those of an independent mind, Goldstone provides a peaceful bolthole from which to discover some pretty remarkable places.
