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Showing posts with label Shropshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shropshire. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 October 2012

Ironbridge Gorge

A circular walk of about 5 miles around the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire.
  • Bedlam Furnace Car Park (SJ678033)
  • Iron Bridge
  • Church of St Luke
  • The Rotunda Viewpoint
  • Iron Bridge
  • Jackfield
  • Jackfield & Coalport Memorial Bridge
  • Bedlam Furnace Car Park
Bedlam Furnace

Friday, 19 October 2012

Stiperstones

A circular walk of about 6 miles from the Bog in Shropshire to Stiperstones.
  • Car park at the Bog (SO356980)
  • SSW to the Rock
  • Nipstone Rock
  • Cranberry Rock
  • Manstone Rock, Stiperstones (the second-highest hill in the county of Shropshire at 536 metres)
  • Devil's Chair
  • Pennerley
  • The Bog
The Miners' Institute remains at the Bog

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Titterstone Clee Hill

A circular walk of about 7 miles from the village of Cleehill in Shropshire to Titterstone Clee Hill.

This is the Titterstone Clee Hill & Cleeton St. Mary from Cleehill walk from the Walking Britain web site.
  • Parking at viewpoint on the eastern edge of Cleehill village (SO595753)
  • Dhustone
  • Titterstone Village
  • Titterstone Clee Hill (the third-highest hill in the county of Shropshire at 533 metres)
  • Callowgate
  • Cleeton St Mary
  • Dhustone
  • Cleehill village
The Kremlin Inn (Shropshire's highest public house at 395 metres) at Cleehill

Friday, 12 October 2012

Ragleth Hill and the Long Mynd

A circular walk of about 11 miles from the Carding Mill Valley near Church Stretton in Shropshire to Ragleth Hill and the Long Mynd.

This walk is the Ragleth and the Long Mynd from Cardingmill Valley walk from the Walking Britain web site.
  • National Trust Car Park in Carding Mill Valley (SO448943)
  • Church Stretton
  • Ragleth Hill
  • Minton
  • Packetstone Hill
  • Pole Bank
  • Mott's Road
  • National Trust Car Park in Carding Mill Valley
Carding Mill Valley

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Brown Clee Hill

A walk of about 6 miles from near Cleobury North in Shropshire to Brown Clee Hill.

This walk is The Clee Hills from near Cleobury North walk from the Walking Britain web site.
  • Roadside parking on the unclassified road to the west of Cleobury North (SO607872)
  • Abdon Burf (the highest hill in the county of Shropshire at 540 metres)
  • Clee Burf (about 1½ miles south of Abdon Burf, not marked on the 1:50,000 map)
  • Start point
The path to Abdon Burf

Sunday, 7 October 2012

Flounders Folly

A circular walk of about 10 miles from Halford near Craven Arms in Shropshire to Flounders Folly.
  • Halford (lay-by on B4368 (SO438829))
  • Lower Dinchope
  • Flounders Folly
  • Westhope
  • Wolverton Wood
  • Strefford Wood
  • Halford
Craven Arms

Saturday, 6 October 2012

Hawkstone Park and Follies

A walk of about 4 miles around the follies at Hawkstone Park in Shropshire.

The park consists of about 100 acres of landscaped grounds with cliffs, crags, caves, clefts and follies created in the 18th Century by the Hill family. After many years of neglect they were restored in the early 1990s and reopened in 1993.

The Greenhouse and entrance to the follies