It lies on the A49 and has a railway station which is on the Shrewsbury to Hereford Welsh Marches Line as well as existence a starting point of the Heart of Wales Line. Nearby towns come Bishop's Castle, Clun, Church Stretton and Ludlow.

The holidaymaker attraction is the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, which explores the landscape & wildlife of the Shropshire hills & includes the "virtual ballon ride" above South Shropshire. Tourer besides are for the scenery of the nearby hills (Long Mynd) and forests.

Craven Arms occurs as comparatively newly town (for Shropshire), existence merely the little village "Newton" on the map of 1695. Nearby is Stokesay and Stokesay Castle. It probably will require it's title from either a Craven Arms Hotel, placed on a junction between a A49 & the B4368 roads.