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All Year.
A 60 minute walk (2 miles).

Family Friendly Walks: Ellesmere Eccentricities. The Mere, Ellesmere. An easy, there-an-back-again walk.Taking you around the Mere. Suitable for pushchairs. Free activity. See link to website for map and guide. Flattish, easy terrain, suitable for pushchairs.
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To viewpoint, less than 1 mile. Longer walk 2½ miles.
Allow 1 or 2 hours to complete the walk.

A 1 mile walk to the viewpoint on Grinshill or a 2.5 mile circular walk around Grinshill & Corbet Wood. Visit the famous stone quarries of Grinshill taking in the viewpoint, this can develop into an adventrous wander around the woodland. Over 200 million years…
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Family Friendly Walks: Nesscliffe Nonsense The Cliffe, Nesscliffe. A stroll over the Cliffe - there is a toposcope at the viewpoint, pointing out the hills you can see on a good day. Suitable for all terrain pushchairs. Free activity. See link to website for map…
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The walk is around 2 Miles long - Allow 2 hours time to complete the walk.

A 2 mile circular walk around Rectory Wood & Field. This is a fairly tough little walk, that is even better if you like to splash about in streams. The rouute includes fields and woodland paths. It is hillywith some steep climbing and descents. It is not suitabl for…
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All Year (2 miles)
Allow 1.5 hours - 2 hours to complete the walk.

A 2 mile circular Family Friendly walk around Lyth Hill. Explore the land of rope, Romans and really old rocks.From Lyth Hill you can see Iron Age Hill Forts on the Wrekin, Lawley, Caer Caradoc, Brown Clee & Earl’s Hill. There is a great view to…
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All Year. Around 1 hour (1.5 miles) long.

A 1.5 mile circular Family Friendly walk around the Battlefield Heritage Site. You can explore the site of the brutal battle fought between King Henry VI and the rebellious Harry Hotspur six hundred years ago. Look towards the church. What seems like a cluster of…
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All Year. A 40 minute walk (1 mile).

Family Friendly Walks. Brown Moss Bogginess, Brown Moss is a short 1 mile circular walk around the sponge-like mosses & through the wood. At one time it was a big lake like Ellesmere. It’s been clogged up with dead plants to make thick black peat. Frogs,…
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All year. 90 minute walk (1.5 miles).

Colemere Collywobbles, Colemere, off the A528 just past Cockshutt. A 1.5 mile circular route around Colemere which takes you along the Shropshire Union Canal. Cole Mere is like a giant’s tummy-button filled with icy water. It has steep sides and is really deep. It was made…
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All Year. A 90 minute walk (2 miles).

Family Friendly Walks: Ellesmere Extravaganza. Ellesmere is thought to have been named by the Saxons who called it ‘Aelsmere’ or ‘great lake.’ Imaginative lot the Saxons. The Moors is all that’s left of a big bog that had been here since the end of the…
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All Year. A 60 minute walk (1 mile).

A 1 mile circular walk around Llanymynech Heritage Area. The route: Two hundred years ago Britain was the most powerful country in the world. Places like Llanymynech became hugely important because of what they produced here. Donkeys and horses were vital to pull the carts full…
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