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The Cockshutt Code of conduct: Please do not drop litter – use litter bins where provided. Walks around the countryside To avoid disturbing wildlife please keep to Green Hairstreak butterfly designated paths where possible. and heritage on your doorstep Rising above Oakengates and straddling the Do not pick wildflowers. space between Wrockwardine Wood and St Georges, the Cockshutt is an extensive and much valued part of Telford’s Green Network Gorse Seed Weevil which was designated a Wildlife Site by Shropshire Wildlife Trust in 1984. This large site has a long history of industrial use, and includes canal, railway and mining remnants, but over time the area has naturally regenerated and the trees and flowers you see today cover the scars left by centuries of mining. The Cockshutt includes a rich mix of habitats; gorse dominated heathland, scrub, grassland, and woodland which in turn supports a great diversity of wildlife. The area is especially good for birds, butterflies and bats, and also Contact details/further information: provides an accessible haven for nature www.tgsp.org.uk lovers, dog-walkers and children to enjoy throughout the year. Local Parish Councils aim to have the Cockshutt declared a Local Nature Reserve to ensure the preservation of this special location, for the benefit of its wildlife and the enjoyment of local people and visitors. The observant (bring binoculars if you have them) walker may be lucky enough to encounter a variety of species during a long or short stroll around this fascinating site – see Written by Alec Connah and Andrew Cutts, 2015 Photos: Cover by Alec Connah, Weevil and butterfly by our Top Ten list for reference – though this is Andrew Cutts, Jay and Chiffchaff by Mark Sisson just a taster! Designed by MA Creative Ltd • www.macreative.co.uk Welcome to The Cockshutt, a green haven D A 4373 for wildlife and walkers only minutes from AY B O D W R O WO M W E Oakengates, Wrockwardine Wood and St IN E D O R T S N WA CK N S Georges. This leaflet will tell you a little more RO R W O SCE A about the locality and shows you the main Some notable D CRE footpaths you can use for further exploration heritage locations Walk Route MMER Other paths U and where they start and finish. It’s possible to 1. The site of Wilkinson’s blast S D Entrances OA R D see a lot of this lovely location during a forty furnaces of 1780, the steam EW to site N UT A H T E O S R OS D L R powered furnaces were the K C five minute stroll around, but the more time C CO S ’ 0m 100m 200m E E first in Shropshire. N G you spend exploring, the more you are likely O R T 2. Station Hill – part of S O E N G to see. H D Roman Watling Street [the A O T O J S R first road in Shropshire to N L O C You can use this guide at any time of year, be turnpiked in 1725-26]. N I L D B though the best months for wildflowers, birds 3. This cutting was part of A R O IG R G the Lilleshall Company’s W ’S and butterflies are April to September. Do bear WO E W N O G D A LA O extensive railway system – NDS Y URBA W in mind that the footpaths leading to, from N RO DR AD E built 1851-55, closed 1959. R and around this site are also part of a much S T 4. This track, known locally as R E wider network of routes (See OS Explorer map E ‘pig rails’, is the route of an T RIVE UIN D 242) – so from here it is also possible to walk to early horse-drawn railway POQ CAP Granville Country Park, Central Hall or Trench which carried coal and S ironstone from local mines T and Middle Pools and to many other parts of A F to Donnington Wood F Jay the ‘countryside on your doorstep’. O R furnaces. D R B 5. The path here descends O AB A N D E on the slope of an inclined TH E NABB plane of the Shropshire TH WA L K E R CR Canal. L EV E ES S Q O The Cockshutt ‘Top Ten’ N U PA C E NO L NT E CE RA ES N R species list: M R C (Butterfly) S A H KE W IL L T A D O A N W A Green Hairstreak Y T 1. O E R (Bird) A R S Chiffchaff 4 R NT 4 W A CE 2. Whitethroat RES 2 O C C L ER L E K I L (Bird) WA 3. Jay W (Bird) 4. Linnet S (Butterfly) D T A A T Dingy Skipper O TREE F R S 5. (Bird) F T B I O N O T AL R U I L L D H H Willow Warbler (Bird) S N 6. RO K O C I O T A C T A 7. Green Woodpecker(Bird) D S Police Station W SILKIN E 8. Chiffchaff S (Mammal) T S Pipistrelle bat TR 9. EET (Plant) Business WA 10. Gorse Park Y Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2015.
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