Shropshire Way 80K Festival

Craven Arms, United Kingdom • 3 Apr 2027

Shropshire Way 80k Festival

The Shropshire Way 80k is a spring running and walking festival in the Shropshire Hills. The first weekend of April attracts hundreds of runners and walkers to routes that showcase local food, history and landscape. The event is organised by the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre and operated by the charity Grow Cook Learn.

The festival is a fundraiser for Grow Cook Learn. Funds raised are used to support the charity’s education programme, including teaching children from inner‑city areas about how food is grown.

Routes run across varied trail terrain, including high peaks, ancient woodlands, market towns, hillforts, castles and river valleys. Checkpoints on longer routes provide local food and drink. The festival includes these distances:

  • 80 km SW80K, 24 hour time limit
  • 42 km Mammothon, 12 hour time limit, about 1000 m elevation
  • 21 km Half Mammothon, 6 hour time limit, about 650 m elevation
  • 10 km Tusker 10k, 4 hour time limit

Spaces are limited for the event. The festival is centred at the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre in Craven Arms, Shropshire. Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.

Race information

80 km
Sw80k
Marathon
Mammothon
Half Marathon
Half Mammothon
10 km
Tusker 10k
Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.
Trail runs nearby

Ludlow10 on Sunday 12 July 2026 offers 5k, 10k and half marathon routes through town roads, local woods and trails. Post race hospitality continues into the day.

A short pairs race on Haddon Hill in Carding Mill Valley where one runner sprints to the top, tags a partner, and the partner runs back down. Entries are on the day only at £10 per pair and the minimum age is over 12.

Trail races of 10 mile and 5 mile in Aymestrey on 19 July 2026, with a climb to the Iron Age hillfort at Croft Ambrey. Routes are fully marked and marshalled with water stations, on the day entries if capacity and a juniors 2 km race.

A multi-distance run along a disused railway between Ironbridge and Bridgnorth, offering distances from 9 miles to 37 miles with 9.4 mile laps and aid stations every 4.7 miles.

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