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
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The Bog Darnford White Grit Field Centre Discover Shropshire Route 9 A49 Corndon Ratlinghope Blooks Hill Hill Belmore Duckley Nap Jinlye Bridges Black Rhadley Hill Haddon All Stretton Hill Shropshire Way Footpaths Bridleways Shooting Box A488 Caer Circular walk Caradoc Open Access land Carding Mill B5477 Cefn Medlicott Valley Gunthly Visitor Centre Hyssington Visitor Information Centre Place of Worship Linley Norbury Hill CafBigé Caravan/Camping Site Wood Pole Bank Devils CHURCH STRETTON Heath Mynd Public House Museum Long Mouth Synalds Toilets Car Parking Wentnor Long Mynd Building of Historical Interest Railway Station Prolley Moor Upper Snead Castle Norbury English Heritage Ahes Hollow Gardens National Trust Asterton B4371 Wentnor Prolley Moor Round Visitor Attractions Forestry Commission Hill Hope Bowdler Snead Hill summit Youth Hostel Callow Ragleth A489 Hollow Little Stretton Hill Ragdon More Whitcot Minton Chelmick Gliding Batch Newton Asterton Club Lydham ONGMinton MYND B4388 A49 Hardwick Knolls A488 L Aston Hill Bankshead CAUTION: When you come off the Long Marshbrook A489 Myndtown B4383 Mynd you have to cross the very busy Acton Scott A489 road at Plowden. AEato permissiven Churchmoor Historic Working Upper Lea Hill Hamperley Farm Woodbatch path shortcut has been agreed but still BISHOP’S CASTLE stop, look and listen before you cross Reilth To p Black Knoll 1 The Country Squire’s Stroll
Oakeley Totterton Bushmoor Mynd Plowden B4385 Colebatch Wenlock Edge
Plowden Woods Alcaston Upper A cot Lydbury North Blakeridge Wood A488 B4385 Brockton Stre ord Edgton Longville Wistanstow Basford Common A489 Walcot
Wart Hill Acton Brunslow Round Oak Cheney Argoed Callow Hill Short Wood Longville
Withins Wood Walcot Park Red Wood A49 Bury Ditches Hopesay Common Hatford Sunny Hill Sibdon Carwood Hopesay CRAVEN ARMS Upper Dinchope B4368 Clunton Hill Kempton Steppleknoll Burrow Stepple Guilden 4 Burrow Camp Long Down Circular Walk Meadowend Discovery Centre B4385 Aston Norton Oaker Camp Radnor Wood Wood on Clun B4368 DIFFICULTY: Some steep uphill Little Stokesay Norton Clunton Castle Brampton B4369 sections Sallow Coppice B4368 5 Circular Walk Nortoncamp Broome Stoke Wood Purslow Wood Hopesay Hill CLUN 500m Gliding Club Black Knoll B4367 10 mile section B4385 400m Round Oak Woodside Sowdley Wood Plowden Long Mynd 300m
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