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Route 2 Bishop’S Castle to Clun Route 2 Bishop’s Castle to Clun Offa’s Dyke B4385 N E E R totally owned by the local estate with all G E L T Discover Shropshire Bishop’s Castle S A C the people working for the landowner. Walk from Bishop’s Castle to Clun Clun Castle ET Villages like Bishop’s Castle grew in the 19th RE B T U S E L L L L W T A S and you will find some of the E N B4384 century when landowners cut down the LS A E H C ST Town RE SALO E P ST T R Hall EE number of people permanently employed T T quietest places in Shropshire. E BI E NG R SL T E S W Y and seasonal workers were forced to rent O C H D L G A I E H T M E K E A T Leave the unspoilt town of Bishop’s R their own accommodation in these open E N O EW T E T ST R S Hospital S T S N H N O ET C STRE I N O R School IO I T villages. AT Castle and you are soon on ancient N A R U Library O U T P H R S C O C Recreation Auction Yard drovers’ ways and the Saxon earthworks D A488 OA Ground Offa’s Dyke R H KE TC R L BA RY C W OD L EN O A E of Offa’s Dyke. This really is border N R E G G Walk in the footsteps of Saxon armies when N I GR L ANGE ROA D W O country, the heart of the Marches, B you follow a section of Offa’s Dyke National BR AM P TO steeped in history. With wonderful place N Trail. It was made between 757 to 796 AD RO A D by Offa King of Mercia to form a boundary names like Woodbatch, Reilth, Middle B4385 between England & Wales. I wonder if the Knuck, Hergan Hill, Three Gates and Bishop’s Castle Saxons ever fought the Celts here? Whitcott Keysett. Until 1832 this colourful little town was one Cefns of the so called “rotten boroughs”. These A special part of the walk is along the were places that returned members of The wonderful ridge running from Three bare windswept Cefns (this means Gates to just outside Clun is called the Parliament but had so few voters that a rich “ridge” in Welsh) with its unspoilt views Cefns. Its probably part of an ancient person could buy the votes and thus a seat in every direction. Then it’s into Clun, in Westminster. But its beginnings were far Drovers’ road that followed the ridge to one of Housman’s “quietest places under earlier, an Anglo-Saxon settlement and the avoid the marshy, forested lower land. site of a Norman motte and bailey. It is at Look closely as you walk it and you will the sun” with a ruined castle, tranquil air the end of the Kerry Ridgeway. A drovers’ find a stone circle. and fine inns. road along which cattle, sheep and even Clun geese were walked to market. The Drovers “Clunton and Clunbury, Take time to wonder the village and must have been a thirsty lot for there have explore more than just the waymarked been 2 breweries here since 1642! It’s also Clungunford and Clun, path through it. There are many hidden an “open village”. Many of the small villages gems, a castle and some welcoming Are the quietest places in South Shropshire were “closed villages” hostelries. This is the smallest town in under the sun” Shropshire and is smaller than many villages. It’s the only town in the county never to have had a railway line or station. Designed by MA Creative • www.macreative.co.uk The Cefn Ridge from the east Discover Shropshire Spoad Upper Ne Churchtow wc Spoad Llanfair Hill Hill astle 0 KILOMETRES 1 2 n 1 Gr 0 MILES /2 Churchtown 1 Hill Cw ai Hergen g m Bur Hill Dog & Duck & Dog B4368 field Ma W Tr eston Hill rd ever Low Upper u Mainstone The Cefns The er Edenhope ward Pe Keysett Whitcott C ntre efn Einion Bishop Reilth ’ To s Moa L p B4368 easowe Colebatch Hill t Br Rock Bic W yn 5 s A488 oodbatc to Circular Middle Aston Hill Aston Br hill n Hill Upper Churchbank yn A488 Argoed W W oodbatc Blakeridge alk h W CL h oodbatc Hobarri M Fa Reilth Guilden iddle Do W UN rm ood wn To B4388 s Red h p Bankshead Upper Snead DIFFICULTY: Some steep uphill sections BISHOP W ood Ac A488 to C Route 2 Route olebatc n Stepplek 12 mile section Radnor W So ithins Snead ’S Shropshire Way Footpaths w Bridleways dley CASTLE W noll Sunn W ood h Brockton ood A489 B4368 W Circular walk y Hill ood Open Access land Ditches B4385 Bur Visitor Information Centre Place of Worship For a more detailed map and information visit: Ly y Café Caravan/Camping Site www.shropshirewalking.co.ukStepple dham Public House Museum Clunto Bishop’s A488 Toilets Car Parking Hergen Hill The Cefns Castle Clun Building of Historical Interest Railway Station n 400m B4383 Castle English Heritage Do Lowe 300m Newton W Gardens National Trust wn alcot 200m r Visitor Attractions Forestry Commission Kilometres 2Clunton Hill 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Mo Oak Pa Hill summit Youth Hostel 0 Miles 2 4 6 8 10 Mynd rk re eley Le Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Shropshire Council 100019801. 2009 a.
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