Route 6 Cold Green to Wilderhope Manor

Bell pits on Brown Clee Route 6 Cold Green to Wilderhope Manor

Brown Clee galloped the length of Wenlock Edge Discover Shropshire only to be surrounded. In desperation he Brown Clee path Brown Clee is Shropshire’s very own leapt from the cliff. The horse died but Walking the Shropshire Way over twin peaks. Clee Burf and Abdon Burf, he fell into a crab apple tree and lived. Brown Clee to Wilderhope Manor both now topped with towers once were Now his ghost is said to haunt the spiral takes you through a landscape used surmounted by ancient earthworks, staircases of the Manor. Bronze Age cairns, two great Iron Age by man for centuries. settlements and medieval On Brown Clee it’s a different world of coal mines, even Stone Age Wilderhope Manor tools have been found here. high moor and windswept hill so hope Now all has been swept for good weather and make sure you are away by great machines well prepared. This is no gentle country and little is left but towering walk. You will be at the highest point in heaps of spoil, water filled Shropshire and there is no higher land to quarries and the gaunt the east until the Urals. This hill has seen skeletons of once so busy it all from Iron Age man to Iron mines, workings. An inclined plane over 2 kms long took the from tar pits to telecommunications. crushed stone to the railway But there are more treats in store. in Ditton Priors. Now all is slipping back to nature. Corvedale, so little explored and so full of treasure: Norman castles, vanished Corvedale villages, great black and white manor Wilderhope Manor What a contrast to Brown Clee, a gentle houses and a quieter way of life. Perched high on Wenlock edge is the rolling dale with the memories of As Housman said: picturesque Elizabethan Manor house busier times. When iron from the hill of Wilderhope. Thomas Smallman, a was smelted to make the cannonballs “Wenlock edge was umbered Major in the Royalist Army once lived that helped defeat Napoleon. Vanished here until caught by the Roundheads. By villages where the churches are the only And bright was Abdon Burf some miracle he escaped on horse and remains of once thriving communities abandoned when the Country entered a And warm between them slumbered mini ice age. The smooth green miles of turf”.

Longville in Discoverthe Dale Shropshire Brockton Route 6B4368 0 KILOMETRES 2 3 4 B4378 Wilderhope Manor 0 MILES 1 2 Wall Under Haywood Shipton Rushbury

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Stanton Long

Eaton

Hungerford Holdgate Ditton Priors WENLOCK EDGE

Middlehope

Munslow Tugford Cleobury North Abdon Burf Aston Munslow BROWN Abdon Liberty CLEE HILL Bach Mill B4364 6 Brown Clee Diddlebury Circular Walk Burwarton

Corfton Cockshutford

Clee Burf DIFFICULTY: some steep sections and Clee St Margaret high moorland

Seifton 11 mile section Cold Weston Great Sutton For a more detailed map and Little Sutton information visit: Stoke Wheathill Culmington St Milborough www.shropshirewalking.co.uk Coldgreen

Shropshire Way Footpaths Bridleways

Circular walk Open Access land B4364 Cleedownton Visitor InformationHaytons Centre Place of Worship Titterhill Bromdon Café Bent Caravan/Camping Site Hopton Public House Museum Changeford Wilderhope Toilets Car Parking Cold Green Abdon Burf Manor Clee Burf Building of Historical Interest Railway Station 500m 400m Holdgate Castle English Heritage Brown Clee 300m Gardens National Trust 200m Forestry Commission Visitor Attractions 100m Kilometres 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 Hill summit Youth Hostel 0 Miles 2 4 6 8 10