The Wrekin

DATE 26.11.2017 | DISTANCE approx 12.6KM | HIGHEST POINT 407M

Posted by Matt | Filed under other locations

 

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TODAY, SHROPSHIRE WAS THE ONLY PART OF THE COUNTRY THAT WAS FORCAST TO BE DRY. It's an area i haven't really seen much of so I was pretty keen to explore more. on many of my drives through shropshire on the m54, i've looked up at wrekin with curiosity. It's pretty much the first decent sized hill you see heading west beyond birmingham., so i wondered what the views from the top would be like. I always noticed the huge mast on it's top too and wondered what it was for. It's also a fairly short journey for us... we consider just under 2 hours to be short! We must thank www.walkingenglishman.com for this great route as it also covers ercalL and some of the surrounding woodland, otherwise it could have a rather short trip.

 

STRAIGHT OFF THE ROAD AND INTO WOODLAND. LOOPING AROUND LAWRENCE'S HILL

SIGNS OF WITCHY GOINGS ON? WELL WICCANS HAVE DONE CEREMONIES AROUND HERE

FIRST VIEW OF THE ERCALL. OUR ROUTE INVOLVED LOOPING AROUND THE BACK AND TO THE SUMMIT

SOME GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ERCALL

I'm not sure what this is, no doubt left behind from the quarrying days here

view from the top of the ercall, the wrekin in the distance.

our plan is to loop around to the other side and attack it from the west.

the ercall wood has some gorgeous oak trees

here is a first, today's route (very briefly) took us right beside the m54

this is limekiln wood and to get here we had to cut through the edge of a golf course. if walking along the m54 didn't have us questioning the route then why would that?

looking over to the wrekin from the edge of limekiln wood

caer carAdoC in the distance

heading in the direction of wrekin farm

the section of road from gibbons coppice to neves castle

on the shropshire way and this section was puff puff steep!

heading for needle's eye

gorgeous view west

needle's eye in sight

looking south from needle's eye

the summit of the wrekin

the view south again from the needle's eye

the view west from the needle's eye towards caer caradoc

hey! some dog photo bombed my summit shot

looking out towards stiperstones from the summit of the wrekin

the wrekin transmitting station

descending the wrekin with the ercall ahead