Wilderhope Manor Route 7 Wilderhope Manor to Church Stretton Discover Shropshire L O Wilderhope Manor N Church Stretton G H I B4370 Walking from Wilderhope to Church L L Caer Caradoc S Perched high on Wenlock Edge is R O A Stretton takes you along precipitous D D the imposing Elizabethan Manor A LUT O WY R CH X E E ROA S H D S T edges, over hill, through dale, house of Wilderhope. Thomas E R O N T E S E A N R Smallman, a Major in the Royalist D F Fire Station T through past times, through quieter O S R D A V Police G E N IN T U L D E T E Army once lived here until caught A A E O W R times: truly the Shropshire Way. R D T LIO E E S A N P U M B4371 EA O N by the Roundheads. By some O D AV E N U H D R E O H E D F O R Library T W T V S A N C E S A Y R Supermarket E A L H R U E R A A E R miracle he escaped on horse and H T Z N T C S L N N E H E R U C G C I R galloped the length of Wenlock H O Stand on the limestone escarpment of A D R Edge only to be surrounded. In A G SN Wenlock Edge and you are on a place so D A A L TC E H O E R T RS LAN desperation he leapt from the cliff. H E W O R important in science that it has its own H L T O D U A U O The horse died but he fell into a S D L T E E geological period named after it, the R T S E crab apple tree and lived. If you A49 G U IN N L E T A V Wenlockian. At Acton Scott the historic A W stay in this Youth Hostel beware, E V I L his ghost is said to haunt the spiral C working farm will give you a glimpse of what this countryside would have been staircases of the Manor. Church Stretton like in slower days. A time before the Iron Age, Roman, Anglo Saxon, Norman all Acton Scott noise and fumes of engines, a time when have lived here. Great hilltop earthworks great horses plied the land. Then Ragleth Here you can travel back in time to a ring the town and the Romans marched hill with the views that call you to Church quieter, slower, more rural age. One where past on Watling Street. But not just in men and animals worked the land, where ancient times was it famous. This is the Stretton, the little Switzerland of Victorian fields were smaller and hedgerowed. No Victorian “Little Switzerland” where top times. vast tractors and wheat filled, barbed wire hatted and crinolined visitors came on fenced deserts here; just a welcome smile the new railway line to take its waters and As Houseman said: and a gentler way of life. Stay and learn walk the hills. Even in the second World what it was like, try your hand at almost War this quiet hill bound town was busy. long forgotten skills, enjoy a rest and take The then new bypass was not opened but “On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble a cup of tea. kept as a parking lot for tanks and guns. His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves; Now it’s a Walkers Welcome town and a base for the adventurous paraglider and The gale, it plies the saplings double, walker alike. And thick on Severn snow the leaves” Designed by MA Creative • www.macreative.co.uk Hughley Darnford The Lawley A49 Ratlinghope Comley The Long Mynd from Ragleth Belmore Plaish Duckley Nap Jinlye Enchmarsh B4371 Haddon All Stretton Discover ShropshireHill Shooting Route 7 Easthope Box Lushcott Carding Mill Caer Cardington Valley B5477 Caradoc Visitor Centre Longville in Devils Long Mouth CHURCH STRETTON the Dale Synalds Hope Bowdler Hill Ahes Hollow Wall Under Haywood Wilderhope Manor 0 KILOMETRES 1 2 B4371 Round LONG MYND Hope Bowdler 1 Hill 0 MILES /2 1 Callow Ragleth Shipton Hollow Little Stretton Hill Rushbury For a more detailed map Ragdon Soudley directions andMinton information visit: Chelmick www.shropshirewalking.co.ukBatch Ticklerton Minton A49 DIFFICULTY: Some steep uphill sections Eaton 10 mile section Marshbrook Acton Scott Historic Working WENLOCKHungerford EDGE Holdgate Farm Shropshire Way Footpaths Bridleways B4368 Circular walk Open Access land Visitor Information Centre Place of Worship 1 The Country Middlehope Squire’s Stroll Café Caravan/Camping Site Public House Museum Toilets Car Parking Wilderhope Church Building of Historical Interest Railway Station Manor Munslow Ragleth Hill Stretton Castle English Heritage Acton Scott 1000 ft WENLOCK EDGE Tugford Gardens National Trust Visitor Attractions Forestry Commission Alcaston 500 ft Kilometres 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 Hill summit Youth Hostel 0 Miles 2 4 Aston Munslow6 8 10 Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Shropshire County Council 100019801. 2009 Bach Mill Streord Diddlebury Corfton Callow Hill.