Coincidentally Mrs BWW suggested the Breiddens as a focus for a walk and we went out there yesterday. We started at the Fir Tree, Crew Green, where the Severn Way crosses the River Severn by the Melverley bridge. We headed out towards Kempster's Hill, intending to cut into the soft underbelly of the range, then approach Rodney's Pillar, fortunately we got some fine views from the N spur of Bausley Hill, Mrs BWW delighted in the ambience of the wood on the N side of that hill.
The hill fort is jealously guarded by a well faded bull warning on a gate that has seen little use in an age.
We then went on to walk the path that crosses the NNW flank of Kempster's Hill. This took some doing as all way marks seemed to be missing, after some decent quality of way along a contour on the top field margin, when then found a new post and wire fence topped with high tensile bar barring the RoW. Curiously either side were 2 upright posts, about knee height, exactly where a stile might have been. We then found ourselves within the sort of Country Life My Pony setup, that spring over couple of years from old small holdings, often to wither away, actually a slight hint poor stockmanship did suggest that process had already started.
I have no doubt that the significance of this bit path will be escape most, but there is a very short length of lostway from the Welsh Border to the road junction, where the lane splitting the Breiddon Massif East to West. That lane joins ways that link the Melverley to the Maginnis Bridge and this join open countryside of North Shopshire to the Mid-Wales heartland.
I hope you might find these observations of interest when you visit the Breiddens, Mel. Not that I expect you to take the minutiae to heart, but when you stand on the various viewpoints, maybe some significance of the broader view and this may help and link in with the many discussions and opinions expressed on this forum.