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Route 9
Long Mynd to
Hopesay
Ponies on the Long Mynd
The Long Mynd
This is the very backbone of the
Shropshire Hills with its heather clad
slopes and hollows. Here history lies
hidden at every corner. Men from the
Bronze Age built cairns and in the Iron
Age great hill forts.
In the tracks of these long dead people
the medieval drovers made their roads.
And its seen action with guns fired here
from Napoleonic times to the Second
World War. It has its share of war secrets
too: From Malcolm Saville’s lone pine
club to the training of peregrine falcons
The Long Mynd
at Pole Cottage to intercept enemy
agent’s carrier pigeons.
No wonder it so inspired Houseman to
write about its blue remembered hills.
Hopesay Common
This little common is a local’s favourite.
Not ploughed for centuries and fenced
by ancient boundaries, trod only by
sheep, horses and lucky walkers. It has a
stile with a verse from Omar Kyam and in
autumn mushrooms abound. And if you
are lucky the twisting flight of a red kite
will delight you.
Discover Shropshire
Walking the Shropshire Way along
the Long Mynd to Hopesay Common
will take you the length of the
Long Mynd on a way used since the
Bronze Age.
What a walk and what views there are
as you travel the great hog’s back of the
Long Mynd and onto Hopesay Common
where the land has not been ploughed
for centuries. Views that seem to pull the
eyes right out of your head. Snowdon to
the West, the great Clee hills to the east,
gliders above you and it seems an Iron
Age fort on every hilltop.
As Houseman said:
Across the glittering pastures
And empty upland still
A solitude of shepherds
High in the folded hill
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The Portway, Long Mynd
A488
Blooks Hill
Black
Rhadley Hill
The Bog
Field Centre
Shropshire Way
Museum
Caravan/Camping Site
Place of Worship
Open Access land
Bridleways
National Trust
Totterton
4
Burrow Camp
Circular Walk
Oaker
Wood
Short Wood
Brunslow
B4385
Little
Brampton
Aston
on Clun
Hopesay
Ratlinghope
Minton
Batch
Long
Synalds
Darnford
Round
Hill
Shooting
Box
Belmore
Wart Hill
Long
Meadowend
5
Stiperstones from Robin Hoods Butt
Woolstaston
Jinlye
A49
Caer
Caradoc
Chelmick
Hope Bowdler
Ragdon
12
Norton
14
Round Oak
8
B4371
CHURCH STRETTON
Visitor Centre
B5477
All Stretton
Route 9
Duckley Nap
Haddon
Hill
Devils
Mouth
Ragleth
Hill
Plowden
10
10
16
Hopesay Hill
B4368
Wenlock Edge
Callow Hill
Alcaston
The Country
Squire’s Stroll
Acton Scott
6
1
Historic Working
Farm
Norton
Camp
Strefford
Discovery Centre
8
Black Knoll
Nortoncamp
Wood
Stokesay
Castle
4
Upper Dinchope
Upper Affcot
Carding Mill
Valley
Long Mynd
Ahes Hollow
Little Stretton
A49
Marshbrook
Hatford
Bushmoor
Minton
A489
4
Long Mynd
2
6
Gliding Club
Stoke Wood
CRAVEN ARMS
A49
Wistanstow
Hamperley
Callow
Hollow
Longville
Common
2
Cheney
Longville
Sallow Coppice
Circular Walk
500m
400m
300m
200m
Kilometres
0 Miles
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Broome
B4368
B4367
Sibdon
Carwood
Churchmoor
Hill
Knolls
Gliding
Club
Pole Bank
Medlicott
Asterton
Prolley Moor
Asterton
Black Knoll
Basford
B4369
Hopesay
Common
Round Oak
Edgton
Plowden Woods
Plowden
Wentnor
Prolley Moor
Bridges
Discover Shropshire
Footpaths
Circular walk
Visitor Information Centre
Norbury Hill
Linley
Café
Big
Wood
Car Parking
Railway Station
English Heritage
Forestry Commission
Norbury
Gardens
Wentnor
Visitor Attractions
Hardwick
Whitcot
Youth Hostel
More
Newton
Purslow
B4385
Burrow
CAUTION: When
you come off the Long
A489
Myndtown
Mynd you have to cross the very busy
A489 road at Plowden. AEaton
permissive
Lea
path shortcut has been agreed but still
stop, look and listen before you cross
Oakeley
Mynd
B4385
Lydbury
North
Walcot
Kempton
Walcot Park
10 mile section
DIFFICULTY: Some steep uphill
sections
Clunton Hill
B4383
Lydham
Hill summit
Castle
Building of Historical Interest
Toilets
Heath Mynd Public House
Cefn
Gunthly
385
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Clunton
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For a more detailed map and information visit:
www.shropshirewalking.co.uk
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