Route 9 Long Mynd to Ponies on the Long Mynd Hopesay the Long Mynd at Pole Cottage to Intercept Enemy Discover Shropshire Agent’S Carrier Pigeons
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Route 9 Long Mynd to Ponies on the Long Mynd Hopesay The Long Mynd at Pole Cottage to intercept enemy Discover Shropshire agent’s carrier pigeons. The Portway, Long Mynd This is the very backbone of the Walking the Shropshire Way along Shropshire Hills with its heather clad No wonder it so inspired Houseman to the Long Mynd to Hopesay Common slopes and hollows. Here history lies write about its blue remembered hills. hidden at every corner. Men from the will take you the length of the Bronze Age built cairns and in the Iron Hopesay Common Long Mynd on a way used since the Age great hill forts. This little common is a local’s favourite. Bronze Age. In the tracks of these long dead people Not ploughed for centuries and fenced the medieval drovers made their roads. by ancient boundaries, trod only by And its seen action with guns fired here sheep, horses and lucky walkers. It has a What a walk and what views there are from Napoleonic times to the Second stile with a verse from Omar Kyam and in as you travel the great hog’s back of the World War. It has its share of war secrets autumn mushrooms abound. And if you too: From Malcolm Saville’s lone pine are lucky the twisting flight of a red kite Long Mynd and onto Hopesay Common club to the training of peregrine falcons will delight you. where the land has not been ploughed for centuries. Views that seem to pull the The Long Mynd eyes right out of your head. Snowdon to the West, the great Clee hills to the east, gliders above you and it seems an Iron Age fort on every hilltop. As Houseman said: Across the glittering pastures And empty upland still A solitude of shepherds High in the folded hill Designed by MA Creative • www.macreative.co.uk Stiperstones from Robin Hoods Butt W Discover Shropshire oodbatc Aston Hill Aston Upper Blakeridge h Argoed BISHOP CL Reilth Corndon UN W Hill ood Hy To B4388 Do Guilden ssington Red p White Grit Bankshead Snead Upper C ’S wn W W olebatc ood CASTLE Shropshireoodside Way Footpaths Bridleways A488 Ac to Radnor Stepplek h Circular walk n Open Access land Snead Brockton W Bur W So noll ithins ood Visitor Information Centre Place of WorshipSunn w y Ditches y A489 dley B4368 A488 y Hill Café Caravan/Camping Site W Stepple ood B4385 W ood Public House Clunto Museum Gunthl Cefn Toilets Car Parking Heath Mynd A488 y n Building of Historical Interest Railway Station Clunton Hill B4383 Castle English Heritage Ly Blooks Hill dham Linle W Rhadley Hill Gardens National Trust Big ood Black Visitor Attractions Forestry Commission y Mo W re Hill summit Youth Hostel Newton Oak alcot Mynd W F Ly alcot ield eley The Bo The No Pa dbur K Le Ce rk P empton rt urslo ntre a h g y B4385 Norbur w A489 Norbur Brampton B4385 y Hill T B4385 otter Little y Brunslo to 4 n CAUTION: When you comeCircular Burrow Camp off the Long Hardwick Eato Shor Mynd you have to cross the very busy w W Whitco n alk A489 road at Plowden. A permissive t W path shortcut has been agreed but still ood We Oaker W Burrow ood stop, look and listen before you cross t ntnor Hopesa Plowden on Clun Myndtow Asto Plowden Edgton Round Oak y n Bridges W Aste oods n Black Knoll Pr Basf rt Pr We olley Moor B4369 on Aste olley Moor Common ntnor Hopesay or rt d B4367 on Meadowend Medlicott B4368 Broome Churchmoor Gliding Wa Club Ra L rt Hill ong tlinghop P Hill ole Bank Knolls Belmor Ca 5 Sibdon Minton Batch Circular Sa rw Shooting C L llow Coppice ongville ommon ood e e W Bo alk Hollo Callo Round L x Darnf Cheney ongville Hill Hamperley w L w or W S Stoke d istanstow A489 ynalds ONG MYNDL ong Mi nton W CRA ood Bushmoor A49 Little Stretton Marshbrook L ong Mynd Ahes Hollo VEN ARMS Duck Route 9 Route Haddon ley Nap Hill Hatf Castle Stokesa Discover Ca w rding Mill Mouth Devils V or A49 alley d Nor W oolstaston y y W toncamp Upper A ood Ce Streord ntre Historic Ac Jinly V isitor ton Sc ton Ca Nor e DIFFICULTY: Some steep uphill Fa R co All Stretton mp agleth Upper Dinchope rm Wo to Hill Ce t CHURCH STRE sections n rk B5477 ntre ott 1 ing Squire’ The Countr Alcaston R Callow Hill agdon s Stroll s Nor Gliding Club Black Knoll Hopesay Hill 500m y Hope Bowdler Hope to n 10 mile section 400m W Round Oak Plowden Chelmick enlock Edge Long Mynd 300m B4371 TT A49 For a more detailed map and information visit: 200m Ca Caer r ON B4368 www.shropshirewalking.co.uk Kilometres 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 ado 0 Miles 2 4 6 8 10 c Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Shropshire County Council 100019801. 2009.