Shropshire Hills

The Shropshire Hills are a dissected

the Clees

.

The Shropshire Hills lie south of the county town of

Teme Valley and to the southwest by the Clun and North West Herefordshire Hills.^[1]

Environment

The Shropshire Hills are listed as Natural Area No. 42 and also as National Character Area 65 by Natural England, the UK Government's advisor on the natural environment. The NCA covers an area of 107,902 hectares (416.61 sq mi) and measure around 50 kilometres (31 mi) from west to east and north to south. The dominant pattern of the hills is a series of southwest to northeast ridges, scarps and valleys. They are characterized by steep, rounded 'whaleback' hills, often crowned with open moorland, with woodland dressing the steeper slopes. There are scattered farms in dales and sheltering in valleys; larger settlements being confined to the Stretton Valley and A49 corridor.^[1]

Major summits

Roughly a half of the NCA lies within the

Sites of Special Scientific Interest, the latter totalling 4,893 hectares (12,090 acres). Its major watercourses are the rivers Corve, Onny, Severn and Teme and the Ledwyche and Rea brooks. The average elevation is 84 metres (276 ft); the highest point is Brown Clee Hill at 540 metres (1,770 ft).^[2]

Significant summits in the Shropshire Hills include:

Brown Clee

(540m),

Stiperstones (536m),
Titterstone Clee
(533m),
Long Mynd (Pole Bank) (516m),
Caer Caradoc (459m),
Heath Mynd (452m),
Hope Bowdler (426m),
The Wrekin (407m),
Ragleth Hill (398m),
Lawley (377m).

References

^ ^a ^b Shropshire Hills - Character Area 65 at www.naturalengland.org.uk. Accessed on 7 Apr 2013.
^ NCA 65: Shropshire Hills - Key Facts & Data at www.naturalengland.org.uk. Accessed on 7 Apr 2013.

52°31′19″N 2°43′08″W / 52.522°N 2.719°W / 52.522; -2.719

[JCA65-1] Shropshire Hills - Character Area 65 at www.naturalengland.org.uk. Accessed on 7 Apr 2013.

[NCA65-2] NCA 65: Shropshire Hills - Key Facts & Data at www.naturalengland.org.uk. Accessed on 7 Apr 2013.

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