Route 15 Thresholds to Bayston Hill

Route 15 Thresholds to Bayston Hill Illustration of Cooks Cottage, Blakemoorgate Discover Shropshire Walking from the end of the Wilderley Hall collection of military tanks, a deer farm Long Mynd to the outskirts of and even old rope. The bumpy old As you walk down from the hills past Shrewsbury will take you from the lane that runs along its crest is called Sheppen Fields with its 15th century wild ruggedness of the Bronze the rope walk and here 300 years ago long house admiring the views you Age cairns, Iron Age forts and the flax and hemp ropes that kept will come across Wilderley Hall with ancient high drovers’ roads of the ships sailing and mines hauling were its small but impressive Norman twisted together. Shropshire hills to the gentler Motte and Bailey. Wilderley means farmland of Norman times. “the clearing belonging to Wilfred”, Perhaps all this inspired its most I wonder if that was the first person famous resident; Mary Webb who to build here but was he Norman or wrote Precious Bane and gone to Forget the high hilltops and moors Saxon? Nobody is sure. earth. as you walk downhill to the north: Here the maps change and the word “fort” is seen less and less being Lyth Hill Country Park Bayston Hill replaced by “Motte and Bailey”. The There is one gem to come on the walk The last town before Shrewsbury with names also cry out the changes towards Shrewsbury, a little wooded a name that means “The hill on which with Wilderley halls, Netley Hall and hill that’s now a Country Park, on the stands Baegas stone” is now a large Underhill Hall appearing, all signs of map it’s doesn’t look spectacular but housing estate here once stood a large our Norman past. Even earlier names its position is perfect. It offers perhaps Roman town and later the parklands such as Signal bank, Arscott Villa and the best panoramic views in the whole for the once so grand Lythwood Hall. of Shropshire. From the Wrekin in the Plealey Villa show the Romans were east past the cloud making power here as well. station at Ironbridge to Wenlock edge, next the Lawley and Caer Caradoc to the Long Mynd and last but not least the jagged tors of the Stiperstones. And it’s famous for other things, a Along the wooded slopes The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas of Benthall Edge Designed by MA Creative • www.macreative.co.uk Caer Caradoc and The Lawley from Lyth Hill Discover Shropshire Route 15 400m A488 SHREWSBURY 300m A5 200m DISMANTLED RAILWAY 100m Kilometres 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 A49 Miles 1234 56789 Hook-a-gate Bayston Hill 0 KILOMETRES 1 2 1 0 MILES /2 1 Ascott A488 Annscroft Great Lyth Old Coppice Plealy Longden Lyth Hill Pontesbury Pontesford ROUTE 14 Country Park Exfords A488 Green Polesgate Pontesford Hill Earls Minsterley Hill Wrentnall Longden Stapleton Common Wrentnall Habberley A49 Church Pulverbatch DIFFICULTY: often uneven and undulating Lawn Hill woodland paths and stony tracks Perkins Beach Snailbeach Pulverbatch Mines 15 kilometre section For a more detailed map directions Sheppen Fields and information visit: www.shropshirewalking.co.uk Shropshire Way Footpaths Bridleways Stiperstones Perkins Beach Picklescott Visitor Information Centre Place of Worship Café Museum Thresholds Smethcott Public House Car Parking Stiperstones Toilets Nature Reserve National Nature Reserve Betchcott Shops Country Park Leebotwood ROUTE 8 Castle Fishery ROUTE 1 Stitt Walking routes Camping/Caravan ROUTE 8 Open Access Areas Woodland Darnford You are not permitted to copy, sub-licence, distribute or sell any of this data to third parties in any form. © Crown copyright and database rights 2012 OrdnanceA49 Survey 100049049 Ratlinghope Comley Bridges Belmore Duckley Nap Jinlye.

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