Around Cleobury Mortimer

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Walk through the alleyway under the Talbot Hotel to the main street. Go down Eagle Lane opposite. When the lane bends right, cross a gate into a field. Go up right to a gate, then go diagonally to the top right corner of the next field. Cut rightwards across the corner of another, then go diagonally across the next to meet the far hedge, in line with a solitary oak. Follow the right-hand hedge down to Rowley Brook and turn right to cross a bridge.

Climb diagonally, passing another solitary oak. Cross a stile in the hedge, squeeze past another and go straight on by the left-hand hedge, along a level field. Go through a gate and down the next field to meet a track; turn left then swing right towards Reaside Manor Farm. Pass between the farmhouse and its outbuildings, cross a stile and bear left past an oak tree (complete with treehouse). Descend the slope, continue to a footbridge and cross the River Rea.

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  Terrain  - Mostly field paths across pasture, many stiles
  Landscape  - Pastoral country with secluded valleys and panoramic views
  Dog friendliness  - On leads
  Parking  - Town centre Childe Road (East) and Childe Road (West) car parks, Cleobury Mortimer
  Toilets en route  - At Childe Road West car park
About the walk
It’s hard to say whether Cleobury Mortimer is a town or a village. Once the stronghold of Norman baron Ralph Mortimer, who built a castle here and soon established control over much of the border country, it has a significant entry in the Domesday Book. The Mortimers went on to rule the Marches for...
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Around Cleobury Mortimer

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Additional information
  Terrain - Mostly field paths across pasture, many stiles
  Landscape - Pastoral country with secluded valleys and panoramic views
  Dog friendliness - On leads
  Parking - Town centre Childe Road (East) and Childe Road (West) car parks, Cleobury Mortimer
  Toilets en route - At Childe Road West car park
About the walk
It’s hard to say whether Cleobury Mortimer is a town or a village. Once the stronghold of Norman baron Ralph Mortimer, who built a castle here and soon established control over much of the border country, it has a significant entry in the Domesday Book. The Mortimers went on to rule the Marches for...
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Shropshire
Perhaps nowhere else in England will you find a county so deeply rural and with so much variety as Shropshire. Choose a clear day, climb to the top of The Wrekin, and look down on that ‘land of lost content’ so wistfully evoked by A E Housman.