to Ancient routes and commanding views

Route 2 Churton Ford Fords are important watering places for horses on a long ride. This one, deep in a wooded valley below Church Pulverbatch, has a raised bridge for walkers over the Churton

Brook. Churton was the old name The ford on Churton Brook for Church Pulverbatch.

Church Pulverbatch Church Pulverbatch has many old properties. A church was recorded here in the Doomsday Book. Destroyed by the Welsh in 1414, St Green lane to Wilderley Hall Edith’s Church, set in a ring of trees,

was rebuilt after the 18th century. Church Pulverbatch We take an old hedged way north from Picklescott, named Deadmans Lane The Village Hall car park at Church Village Hall and carpark after a man found here frozen to death in the snow. It leads us up to the Pulverbatch has great views over moorland. From up here there are panoramic views to the north, west, and the Plains to Lyth Hill White Horse Inn, Castle Pulverbatch east, with the Pontesbury Hills standing out. Here we can see a patchwork and . quilt of fields sweeping up to the distant Lyth Hill. We skirt round the aptly named Underhill Hall set amongst trees below us, crossing pasture Castle Pulverbatch land to near the old farm of Sheppen Fields. A route from Wilderley, used Castle Pulverbatch, nearby, with throughout the Roman and post Roman period, and recognised as a Kings its White Horse Inn, is where the Highway in the Middle Ages, passed by here to the Portway on the Long Motte and Bailey Norman castle Mynd. Up above on Cothercott Hill, there was a racecourse on the summit of Polrebeche guarded the valley in the early 1800s. route from Shrewsbury to Bishops Castle. Now, just large earth works Coming down over pasture land, we then follow the ancient hedged green mark the site. lane, passing by the old Motte with two Baileys, by Wilderley Hall Farm. The farm is all that remains of the medieval hamlet of Wilderley. Here, another ancient hedged track leads us on, and down to a ford, where bluebells abound in spring, then up to Church Pulverbatch. www.shropshireriding.co.uk Humphrey Kynaston Way Route 2 Picklescott to Church Pulverbatch • 2.6 miles / 4.2 km

Start: Picklescott Wrentnall OS Landranger 137, The Gorse Explorer 217 Black Lion Farm Grid ref: SO 453 944

Harolds Holly Grove Bottle & Glass Inn and Village Bank LYTH HILL Farm Hall Parking – donation to VH CIRCULAR for horseboxes and trailers. Church Lawn Hill Pulverbatch Check Picklescott website PULVERBATCH www.picklescott.org.uk for up to date contact number. k Motte & Bailey Churnton Broo To continue on Humphrey Kynaston Way from Picklescott take the road west for 300m Wilderley Motte & Bailey Hall 1 Take first right road downhill and follow uphill 0 KILOMETRES ½ 1 and then stoned track for 1 mile (1.5km) 0 MILES ¼ ½

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3 Go through gate, turn right and follow right Picklescott Hill fence line to gate. Pool 4 Cross lane, through Picklescott another gate, and keeping fence line on right, go Waterfalls Waterfall k ahead downhill to gate oo onto hedged track leading

down to road by Wilderley Betchcott Br Hall Farm. Golden Betchcott Valley Hills 5 Turn left and follow road Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Shropshire Council 100049049.2014 downhill. w Middle 6 Take hedged Byway on Darnford Upper right and follow it for 2/3 mile (1km) down throughDarnf ord ham Hollo Hawk ford and uphill to join road in Church Pulverbatch – To continue take road to the left ahead or

7 Turn right on road for approximately 200m for Church Pulverbatch Village Hall OS map 241 SJ432 030 Telephone beforehand: Mrs. L. Russell 01743 718409 (small parking charge)

For the White Horse Inn, Castle Pulverbatch, turn left and left again on road for ½ mile.