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O U L H massive defences, down to quiet unspoilt RO C AD The rural idyll was briefly threatened D A O valleys and over common land that has R by railway mania. Craven Arms was to LLWYN ROAD N TO H IG become another Crewe. At Park House not been ploughed for centuries. Linger KN A488 bridge you pass under the quaintest in unspoilt villages that have hardly of the surviving lines. With its request changed since medieval times. Clun stops, one carriage trains decorated with quotations fromL O Dylan Thomas, the Heart Travel from Clun with its ruined castle and N G L Clun is the smallest town in Shropshire and A N of Wales line is moreE Thomas the Tank fine hostelries to Craven Arms, a new and is smaller than many villages. It’s the only engine than Railtrack. town in the county never to have had a bustling little town with its wonderful Discovery Centre. Here you can learn railway line or station. R i v e r T Community O E n more of Shropshire’s secrets. n E Centre y R T S Onnyside

G Picnic Area Bury Ditches N I L Prepare yourself for a wonderful day and T A AD LE RO W EDA It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any CORV D relax in this quiet heart of Shropshire. U N R O A good. For decades Bury Ditches, one of C L B4368 the finest hillforts in Britain, was hidden Heart of Wales Line Police As Housman said: by trees. A winter storm sent the Forestry to Swansea Commission a message. They felled the Discovery Centre L U “In valleys of springs and rivers D L remaining trees to reveal the incredible O W

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CLUN Sowdley Wood Burfield B4385 For a more detailed map directions and information A488 Woodside visit: www.shropshirewalking.co.uk Churchbank AldonSibdon Craven Clun Hopesay Carwood Bury Ditches Kempton Arms DIFFICULTY: Some steep uphill sections 400m Hopesay Pen-y-wern Black Hill 300m Burrow Hill Common Onibury 200m Rockhill 0 KILOMETRES 1 2 100m Upper Kilometres 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 1 11 mile section Treverward 0 MILES /2 1 0 Miles 2 4 6 8 10 Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. 100019801. 2009 Wootton Hobarris