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Shropshire. in bike a on about and out get to great It’s Cheshire East East Cheshire Whitchurch % 0300 123 81 23 81 123 0300 Discover Shropshire by bike by Shropshire Discover chester.gov.uk chester.gov.uk www.cheshirewestand www.cheshirewestand simply enjoy the views from the Mercian Way Mercian the from views the enjoy simply FREE Chester Council Council Chester Chester Take the challenge to ride all around the Wrekin or or Wrekin the around all ride to challenge the Take 45 Cheshire West and and West Cheshire 3 Around the Wrekin the Around A 200 mile heritage trail heritage mile 200 A National Cycle Network Network Cycle National 45 45 45 Route Visitor Information Centres Going around the Wrekin History in the making www.shropshiretourism.info Shrewsbury 01743 281200 Why not stay a little longer Why not cycle around Ironbridge 01952 884391 and check out the historical the famous Wrekin Wellington Library 01952 382990 connections? There’s a hill by following three Telford 01952 238008 Roman town at Wroxeter sections of the award- (English Heritage), 18th Attractions winning National century elegance at Attingham Park (National 1 Haughmond Abbey 01743 709661 Cycle Network? Trust) and 19th century innovations and inventions 2 Home Farm, Attingham 01743 709243 at the World Heritage Site at Ironbridge. Museums Combine the quiet 3 Attingham Park 01743 708162 in and around the Ironbridge Gorge include the lanes of the Mercian 4 Wroxeter Roman City 01743 761330 Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron, Blists Hill Victorian Way (16 miles along National Cycle Route 45) with 5 Wroxeter Vineyard 01743 761400 Town, Coalport China Museum and Tar Tunnel, the disused railway paths of the Silkin Way (Route 6 Ironbridge museums 01952 433424 Museum Of The Gorge, Iron Bridge and Tollhouse, 55) and Perry Way (Route 81) and you have a 36 mile 7 Telford Town Park 01952 382340 Jackfield Tile Museum, Broseley Pipeworks circuit. and Enginuity. Cycling contacts CycleLife Shrewsbury* - Shrewsbury 01743 232061 The stuff of legends shropshire Dave Mellor Cycles* - Shrewsbury 01743 366662 What is the Mercian Way? shropshire Halfords - Shrewsbury 01743 270277 The Wrekin is made of volcanic rock and rises to From the Wyre Forest to Chester the route runs Hawk Cycles - Shrewsbury 01743 344544 400m in height. It has the remains of an Iron Age through the former ancient Kingdom of Mercia, once Stan’s Cycles* - Shrewsbury 01743 343775 shropshire Hillfort on its summit, and evidence suggests it was ruled by the powerful Offa, the first man to claim the The Trailhead - Shrewsbury 01743 537124 an important focal point for our prehistoric ancestors. title of King of England. Look out for the two Mercian Urban Bikes* - Shrewsbury Market Hall 07828 638132 shropshire Bicycles by Design*- Jackfield 01952 883249 Warriors on the Mercian Way through the gorge. Why shropshire There are a number of folktales about the origin of Bicycle Repair Services*- Broseley 07539 268741 not try out the recently opened section of Mercian Way shropshire this distinctive hill, including one story which tells of between Bridgnorth and Bewdley? This includes some (mobile mechanic) a wicked giant from Wales who decided to dam the Bicycle Buzz Ltd* - Telford 01952 605213 superb traffic-free tracks within the Wyre Forest and in shropshire Severn and create a huge flood to spite the people The Bicycle Hub in the Park* - Telford 01952 883249 the Severn Valley Country Park (alongside shropshire of Shrewsbury. He set off, carrying a spade full of Perry Cycles - Wellington 01952 244802 the Severn Valley Railway). From Upton earth, but somehow managed to miss Shrewsbury, Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC) 0844 736 8450 Magna near Shrewsbury, the Mercian Way and on reaching Wellington, started to regret his Sustrans 0845 113 0065 joins with the National Byway to head heavy load. Along came a cobbler with a sack of old north to Whitchurch and Chester. *Accepts Cycle Shropshire Discount Card boots and shoes. The giant explained the purpose of his journey and the clever cobbler (not wishing Public transport enquiries To minimise the hills and headwinds, to lose his customers in Shrewsbury), explained that www.travelshropshire.co.uk follow the route in an anticlockwise it was so far to Shrewsbury that he had worn out Traveline 0871 2002 233 direction. all the boots and shoes himself. The giant decided National Rail Enquiries 0845 7484 950 to give up on his plan, so dropped the earth on the www.nationalrail.co.uk ground where he stood, and scraped his boots on the spade, and returned to Wales. And where he put Follow @ShropTravel on Twitter down his load there stands the Wrekin, and even the earth he scrapped off his boots was such a pile that *Cycle Shropshire Discount Card it made the little Ercall hill. Visit www.travelshropshire.co.uk/discount to sign up for the free Cycle Shropshire Discount Card and get a discount at a variety of cycling businesses across Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin shropshire Eyton upon the Rodington© Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey Weald Moors 45 National Cycle Route 45 Somerwood Heath100049049. Code of Conduct You are not permitted to copy, ı Cycle With Care B5063 A442 sub-licence, distribute or sell any of Around The Wrekin – 36 Miles • 58 km (circuit) this data to third parties in any form. ı Always follow the Highway Code ı Be considerate to other users, and give way to pedestrians and horse riders A518 Uffington ı Take particular care at junctions, when cycling downhill and on loose surfaces Shawbirch Hortonwood A442 B5060 ı Ride in single file on narrow or busy roads Donnington ı Consider wearing a helmet and high visibility clothing ı Fit a bell and use it – don’t surprise people Withington Admaston A49 Cross Green Leegomery Route 81 B4394 Perry Way Trench Upton Magna Wellington B4373 Granville Wrockwardine Nature Reserve Tern River Hadley A5 Walcot Route 81 to Wolverhampton A5 A5223 Oakengates Berwick Leaton Wharf Charlton Sunnycroft B5061 A5 Arleston Ketley River Severn St George’s A5 TELFORD B5060 A442 Ketley Home Bluebell M54 Bank Priorslee B4380 Farm Attingham B5061 Park Uckington Snedshill Uppington The The Atcham Norton Ercall Rock B4394 Limekiln Stafford STEEP HILL Wood B5072 Park Town 4 Wroxeter Dawley Bank Roman City Lawley Centre Telford Town Park Wroxeter Rushton The STEEP HILL Malinslee Wroxeter Donnington 5 Wrekin Huntington A5223 Vineyard Freight Dawley Only Randlay A442 Cross Houses Route 55 B4380 Little B4373 Silkin Way Upper STEEP HILL STEEP HILL Wenlock Berrington Longwood Horsehay Stirchley Doseley Route 45 (on lanes/trac-free) The Aqueduct c.1792 Route 81 (on lanes/trac-free) A4169 Little Brookside Route 55 (trac-free) Dawley Leighton Lightmoor Round The Wrekin Cycle Trail (11 miles) Route 45 Mercian Way Saplins Wood Freight Take Care Cycle Shop Only STEEP HILL Way Madeley Court Halesfield Visitor Information Centre Cycle Parking Rough Park Windmill B4380 Tweedale Buildwas A4169 Café Cycle Hire Coalbrookdale Woodside Public House Playground River Seve Madeley A442 Shops Country Park STEEP HILL Ironbridge Toilets Building of Historical Interest rn Car Parking Museum 6 Sutton Power Hill Wildlife Reserve Railway Station Benthall Lloyds Coppice Blists Station Iron Bridge Leisure Centre English Heritage Edge Hill National Trust Place of Worship Banner’s Coppice Youth Hostel Forestry Comission Benthall Hall B4373 Coalport 0 1 2 3 Broseley KM B4375 MILES Whitwell Coppice Route 45 0 1 2 IRONBRIDGE GORGE to Bridgnorth.