There are several places where snowdrops can be enjoyed in Shropshire. I have selected just a few for you to enjoy. Stanton Lacy Churchyard, near Ludlow, has a beautiful show of Snowdrops around the gravestones. It is a veritable carpet of snowdrops.
Walking Dillie mean I do get to see what is happening on the Meadows and by the River. However, we have not walked on the Meadows or by the River much over the last three months. It has been very wet under
Brown Clee Hill is the highest peak in Shropshire. It is 1772 feet high or 540metres at Abdon Burf where there is a toposcope signposting the landscape beyond. If you travel eastwards from Brown Clee the next high ground you come to
On Wednesday (26thApril) a friend and I walked to Norton Camp. Norton Camp is an Iron Age Hill Fort which is above Craven Arms, to the south east. Wednesday was possibly going to be cloudy and dull but as it turned out
Today’s walk was lovely. Myself and a friend have started trying to walk together once a week. This weeks took us through Sallow Coppice, Stokewood and down past Stokesay Castle. The blue bells were at there best today (beginning of May) carpets
Well, the anticipated walk to Sallow Coppice was better than expected. The sun shone and Dillie is now curled up asleep, probably dreaming of squirrels. We saw plenty of them but they don’t play fair and go to the tops of the
This morning the sun is shining having rained all night. I am off for another walk in about half an hour (Thursday last week) to see what is springing into life in Sallow Coppice. I am hoping that the bluebells will by
I have seen my first Swallows and Housemartins of Spring 2023. Walking Dillie on Halford Meadow this morning (9th April) I saw my first Swallow fly up in front of us. It was only one and it did not fly back my
While walking on Onny Meadows the other day, I could see some white flowers twinkling at me in the sunlight, under some ash trees. When I went and had a closer look I saw a small carpet of white dog violets. Every
The River Onny flows through the meadows surrounding Craven Arms. It’s source is at White Grit in the Shropshire Hills. It has two branches the East and the West Onny which converge at Eaton east of Lydham. The Eastern course rises near
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