Caer Caradoc

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Walk directions

Turn left out of the car park, then right and left on a street with a ‘Sat Nav Error’ sign. It becomes a track, passing right of the Old Vicarage. As it bends left go straight ahead into a field. Go through a gate at the end, bear left in the next field then follow the right hand hedge through several fields. Switch sides at a stile and keep on in the same direction to a road.

Go straight across into a short track. When it opens out go left along a ridge with a fence on your left. Follow the ridge over several stiles then bear slightly right to its highest point. Descend to a small gate and turn right on a clear track. Pass an Access Land sign and continue to two fingerposts by a stile. Cross and go straight up a steep bank, soon easing. Continue straight ahead to a field gate and kissing gate below the steep upper slopes.

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  Terrain  - Generally excellent though steep in places, many stiles
  Landscape  - Steep ridges with rocky outcrops, rolling farmland
  Dog friendliness  - Mostly grazing land, limited scope for dogs to run free
  Parking  - Cardington Village Hall; if in use for an event, use great consideration when parking elsewhere in the village
  Toilets en route  - None on route
About the walk
Caer Caradoc is not the highest hill in Shropshire – most lists put it at no. 6 – but many people rate it the best. It has a compelling outline from any direction; when approaching from the north, for instance, it completely outshines the Long Mynd, though the latter is both higher and far more...
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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.
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Caer Caradoc

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Location
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Additional information
  Terrain - Generally excellent though steep in places, many stiles
  Landscape - Steep ridges with rocky outcrops, rolling farmland
  Dog friendliness - Mostly grazing land, limited scope for dogs to run free
  Parking - Cardington Village Hall; if in use for an event, use great consideration when parking elsewhere in the village
  Toilets en route - None on route
About the walk
Caer Caradoc is not the highest hill in Shropshire – most lists put it at no. 6 – but many people rate it the best. It has a compelling outline from any direction; when approaching from the north, for instance, it completely outshines the Long Mynd, though the latter is both higher and far more...
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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.