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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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- 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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- 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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- 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.