The Shropshire Hills, England, UK - A Walker's Guide

• Location
• Description
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Route
• Maps

INTRODUCTION
Getting There Maps    
Waymarking and Signposting    
What to Wear    
Children    
When to Walk    
Using this Guidebook

THE WALKS
1: Severn Down
Severnside walk with return by steam train
2: High Rock
Riverside and lane walking which includes a ‘secret valley’, spectacular
view of the Severn and a hermit’s cave
3: Severn Up
Upstream walk and return via farmland with more about Bridgnorth

Feature One: Bridgnorth – Sabrina Fair
4: Bewdley and the Wyre Forest    
A woodland walk into Worcestershire

Feature Two: Ironbridge  
5: The Wrekin Giants    
A walk over The Wrekin with some folklore

Feature Three: Much Wenlock   
6: Wenlock Edge and the Desperate Rider
The Major’s Leap walk
7: Ippikin’s Rock and Spring Lamb
More on the Edge
8: Hope Dale and the Edge
Includes Wilderhope Manor and remote Hope Dale
9: The Stiperstones
A little on the wild side – an exploration of a rocky ridge and some of its legends
10: The Long Mynd – Carding Mill Valley Circuit
A walk from this well-known beauty spot
11: The Long Mynd – Ashes Hollow and Pole Bank   
More on the Long Mynd including the summit
12: The Long Mynd ­– Minton and the Packhorse Way    
From tiny Minton over Packetstone Hill
13: The Three Hills Walk   
A circuit taking in some of the less visited hills to the east of Church Stretton
14: Caractacus’s Last Battle    
Walk to Caer Caradoc – a hill camp associated in legend with the British leader
15: An Englishman’s Home   
A Stokesay Castle walk

Feature Four: Ludlow
16: Forest Walking at High Vinnals    
A walk in the woods near Ludlow with the possibility of seeing a unique herd of deer
17: Offa’s Dyke    
A walk on a section of the Dyke
18: More on Offa   
Further walking on the Dyke
19: Croft Castle and the Sun in Splendour   
A visit to a National Trust property, a short walk to a hill fort and some reference to the Battle of Mortimer’s Cross
20: Top of the Lot  
Walk to the highest point in Shropshire – Brown Clee Hill
21: The Land Man Made  
Walk from the summit of Titterstone Clee Hill, much altered by quarrying and capped by an earth satellite station‑