The Shropshire Hills - A Walker's Guide

Explores Shropshire’s hills from Ludlow to the Wrekin, Bewdley to Stiperstones, Wenlock Edge and the Long Mynd in 21 half- and full-day walks. Special features on Ironbridge, Ludlow, Much Wenlock and Bridgnorth and Sabrina Fair.

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‑