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- A few rather crumpled specimens of the legendary Whinberries. Now I’d got these out of my system, or rather into it, I could enjoy the scenery.
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- Looking up towards Caer Caradoc from the south.
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- From the ramparts of the hill fort on Caer Caradoc the views are extensive. The next, smaller, whaleback hill to the northeast is The Lawley.
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- Presumably the Town Brook supplied Church Stretton’s water at some point as it incorporates an interesting old reservoir system.
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- The woods are full of intriguing structures, I think this is an old ice house.
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- Fidget Pie for lunch – delicious!
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- Cute coprophiles on Yearlet.
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- Looking back at Helmeth Hill from Three Fingers Rock at a case study in English upland ecology. On the left, semi-natural. Right: grazed and ‘improved’. Foreground: grazed but unimproved.
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- Ichneumon extensorius female, unless you know better, resting on my hand at the foot of Caer Caradoc.
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- Little Stretton from Ragleth Hill, Long Mynd opposite.
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- The Long Mynd, home of the elusive Whinberry.
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- Church Stretton from Ragleth Hill, Caer Caradoc Hill behind.
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- Over a Norman doorway into the interesting church there’s a Sheela-na-Gig. The poor girl is pretty worn and quite hard to see, I’ve fiddled with this photo to make her stand out.
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- Three Fingers Rock exposes some of the Pre-Cambrian volcanic deposits of differing ages and hardnesses that were tipped and thrust upwards by some unimaginable cataclysm to form Caer Caradoc.
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- Wild Moor to the northwest is unimaginatively named, especially by Shropshire standards.
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- The rather steep-sided Ashes Hollow, from Grindle, Yearlet opposite.
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- The summit of Yearlet, weather closing in.
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- Watercolour sketch of Caer Caradoc, not by me. I had to rescue this from the bin, don’t tell her…
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- The Long Mynd, home of the elusive Whinberry.
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