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Regions - Trip reports, destination advice, recommended routes, etc. => Rest of England => Topic started by: adalard on 10:12:41, 31/10/17
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Morning everyone. :)
This is a new one for me - posting in the "Rest of England" section. We went to Shropshire a couple of weeks back and stayed overnight in the area. We did three walks in total in the Shropshire Hills which was completely new walking territory for me and I thought it was wonderful. I've already plotted several other walks around there and can't wait to go back.
In the meantime, I've got round to writing up the first walk we did, which was up onto the Long Mynd via Carding Mill Valley and back down through Ashes Hollow. A few pics from the blog below:
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Side view as we walked up the Carding Mill Valley.
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View from the top of Light Spout waterfall.
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It was a nice surprise coming across these semi-wild Welsh pit ponies.
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On our way down Ashes Hollow.
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Quinny Brook in Ashes Hollow.
As always, more photos and the full trip report can be found at the blog here:
http://www.occasionallylost.com/2017/10/shropshire-hills-long-mynd.html
Cheers. :)
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*Sighs pathetically................*
Somewhere I would love to visit!
Good shots O0
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Looks like a lovely place adalard O0
I don't like the look of your lunch though in your fourth pic ;D
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Very nice photos. I last walked in the Long Mynd area in the 60s when I was a student. I was on a 2 week Tavistock Insitute Residential Groupwork course and just needed to get away on the one day off we were allowed. At the time the intensity of it was doing my head ion! All I remember that day was it was very sunny and that some sheep were downright brazen! As I sat and ate a sandwich one of them snatched it from my hand and ran off!
My other memory was when one of the USA ladies on the course got into a real panic when she heard over the radio that the Three Mile Island Nuclear facility had 'crashed' in some way. Her dad worked there and it took three days before she found out that he was safe.
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Great Photos, welcome to Shropshire, I pretty sure I know were you took that photo of the fungi, near the top of Ashes hollow batch at the base of a Rowan tree growing close to the stream. I think it is a boletus, if I remember right.
My walks on the Mynd have taught me to use the batches to walk into the hill and the spurs they form as the way off the hill, this way you are walking into the view, and you are saving batches for another walk. One of the advances of using Open Access rather than following footpaths.
If you can sync. the times of your walks to the Shrewsbury - Ludlow bus timetable, you can get some interesting linear routes. Same for the other side with the Ragleth and Caradoc. Usually best to hop on the bus close to where you start, do a few stops then walk into your chosen route.
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Lovely photos, don't know the area at all.
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What a lovely place, great pics and write up on your blog O0 We do have fab countryside in this country don't we?
I went on a canal holiday as a teenager in Shropshire but I can't remember the scenery that much except a viaduct that crossed the border into Wales. Shropshire and The Long Mynd is added to the list of places I would like to walk, thanks Adalard O0
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Great photos and TR adalard :) It looks a wonderful area for walking, with the lovely scenery of hills enfolding the valleys. I've never been to Shropshire but I find its geology very interesting.
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Somewhere I would love to visit!
Good shots O0
Cheers, Pleb - it's well worth going. Beautiful place & tons of walking routes! :)
Looks like a lovely place adalard O0
I don't like the look of your lunch though in your fourth pic ;D
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Thanks, Beefy. Shame you didn't like my food - I thought it was Masterchef-worthy serving it on a tree trunk like that... ;D
Very nice photos. All I remember that day was it was very sunny and that some sheep were downright brazen! As I sat and ate a sandwich one of them snatched it from my hand and ran off!
Thanks, Gunwharfman. O0 We have a few sheep like that here in the Peak District too...
Great Photos, welcome to Shropshire, I pretty sure I know were you took that photo of the fungi, near the top of Ashes hollow batch at the base of a Rowan tree growing close to the stream. I think it is a boletus, if I remember right.
Cheers, BWW. :)
Yes, you're exactly right about the location of the fungus - I'm not well up enough on the subject to identify them myself though, so I'll go with your identification.
Thanks for the tips about walking around there, very handy as we'll be returning regularly I think. We did see a few people walking above us on the spurs. We did Caer Caradoc after this walk and then next day we walked the Stiperstones ridge. Ragleth and Hope Bowdler Hill are both on our to-do list for when we return.
Interesting - "batches", is that a local name for what we call "cloughs" further north?
Lovely photos, don't know the area at all.
Cheers, Ridge. O0
What a lovely place, great pics and write up on your blog O0 We do have fab countryside in this country don't we?
I went on a canal holiday as a teenager in Shropshire but I can't remember the scenery that much except a viaduct that crossed the border into Wales. Shropshire and The Long Mynd is added to the list of places I would like to walk, thanks Adalard O0
Thanks, April. :) We sure do - we were blown away by the scenery.
I'm sure you guys would enjoy it around there. :)
Great photos and TR adalard :) It looks a wonderful area for walking, with the lovely scenery of hills enfolding the valleys. I've never been to Shropshire but I find its geology very interesting.
Thanks, Dovegirl. :) Yes, I was reading up on the geology - fascinating that the Long Mynd was a sea bed and that Caer Caradoc was formed from volcanoes on the coastline. Brilliant stuff! I'm writing up the Caer Caradoc walk next.
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Late to the party, but really enjoyed this on your blog Adalard.
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Great TR and lovely photos. A few years ago I thought about walking there but for various reasons it never happened so with your TR I was able to do a virtual walk. Thank you.
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Hi Adalard,
Thank you, such a good TR, lovely photos. I did a very similar walk (in reverse) back in 2014 (http://www.greenlives.org.uk/LDwalks2.html (http://www.greenlives.org.uk/LDwalks2.html) ) but didn't take any pictures so it is great to be reminded of the scenery.
Interesting - "batches", is that a local name for what we call "cloughs" further north?
The word 'batch' seems to mean a smallish hill in N.Somerset (where I grew up). Interesting to know what it refers to in Shropshire?
Cheers
JW
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Late to the party, but really enjoyed this on your blog Adalard.
Cheers, Penygadair. :)
Great TR and lovely photos. A few years ago I thought about walking there but for various reasons it never happened so with your TR I was able to do a virtual walk. Thank you.
Thanks, Lostme1 - I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
Thank you, such a good TR, lovely photos. I did a very similar walk (in reverse) back in 2014 (http://www.greenlives.org.uk/LDwalks2.html (http://www.greenlives.org.uk/LDwalks2.html) ) but didn't take any pictures so it is great to be reminded of the scenery.
The word 'batch' seems to mean a smallish hill in N.Somerset (where I grew up). Interesting to know what it refers to in Shropshire?
Thanks, John. The route you took up was one I considered myself - there seem to a lot of choices for getting on and off the plateau, as BWW said. Nice to know there are plenty of options for future walks. I think it'd be a great spot for walking when there's a dusting of snow around, so fingers crossed... O0
I wish there was a dictionary of all our "local" dialect terms for landscape features. We might be only a small group of islands but I think the amount of regional variation in even just the English language is incredibly rich and diverse - and then you can add Welsh and Gaelic to that as well.
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Lovely photos O0
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Lovely photos O0
Thanks, Sunnydale. :)
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I'm even later to the party than Penygadair.
South Shropshire is just a stunning area to walk in and your photos do it full justice
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South Shropshire is just a stunning area to walk in and your photos do it full justice
Cheers, Werringtonwalker. :)
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Great pics and write up adalard O0
I can see me booking a few days at my Uncle's house and getting out and walking these routes that are on my "to do" list as you seem to be beating me to it and whetting my appetite ;D
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Great pics and write up adalard O0
I can see me booking a few days at my Uncle's house and getting out and walking these routes that are on my "to do" list as you seem to be beating me to it and whetting my appetite ;D
Cheers, Mel. :)
My Shropshire "to do" list is getting longer by the day - as soon as we got back I started plotting other walks in the Shropshire Hills. Can't believe it's taken me so long to "discover" them.
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Shropshire is lovely, Ive driven through many times and always admired it.
Great photos. :)
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Thanks, Tom. O0
Yes, I agree, the countryside around Shropshire is really beautiful.
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Lovely photos, never walked in Shropshire yet.. may have to soon! :)
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Been round there a few times and camped out at Church Stretton. Really nice area but can get very busy on good warm sunny days, like most places really. Good stuff O0
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Lovely photos, never walked in Shropshire yet.. may have to soon! :)
Cheers, Seferix - I'd definitely recommend it. :)
Been round there a few times and camped out at Church Stretton. Really nice area but can get very busy on good warm sunny days, like most places really. Good stuff O0
Thanks, Redeye. Yes, Carding Mill Valley was really busy but the number of people around thinned out a lot almost as soon as we left the lower levels. It was the same going back down Ashes Hollow, we passed no-one until we got to the lower levels and then there were quite a few other people rambling, though not as many as at Carding Mill.