Route 6 Cold Green to Wilderhope Manor
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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”. Designed by MA Creative • www.macreative.co.uk Wenlock Edge & the Long Mynd Discover Shropshire 0 KILOMETRES 2 3 4 0 MILES 1 2 Middlehope Seifton Culmington Bach Mill Eaton Corfton Diddlebury Wall Under Wall Haywood Titterhill Little Sutton Munslow Aston Munslow Aston Rushbury Great Sutton Great WENLOCK EDGE Haytons Bent Hungerford Wilderhope Manor Wilderhope Longville in Longville the Dale Cold Weston Cold Changeford Hopton Tugford B4368 St Milborough St Shipton Stoke Holdgate DIFFICULTY: some steep sections and high moorland Margaret Clee St 6 B4378 CircularWalk Clee Brown 11 mile section Long Stanton Cockshutford For a more detailed map and Brockton Cleedownton information visit: Liberty B4364 Abdon Clee Burf www.shropshirewalking.co.uk 6 Route Abdon Shropshire Way Footpaths Bridleways Burf Coldgreen CLEE HILL CLEE BROWN Circular walk Open Access land Priors Ditton Visitor Information Centre Place of Worship Café Caravan/Camping Site Public House Bromdon Museum Wilderhope Toilets Car Parking Cold Green Cleobury North Burwarton 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 B4364 Visitor Attractions B4368 Wheathill 100m Kilometres 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 Hill summit Youth Hostel 0 Miles 2 4 6 8 10 Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Shropshire County Council 100019801. 2009.