Shropshire Hills 2018 Day 2

Day 2 Thursday 16^th August 2018

Today I followed Wild Edric’s Way as far as the Stiperstones, using a Shropshire Hills walking guidebook I had had for years.   The path was pretty much the route I had taken before, up Carding Mill Valley, over the Mynd, down into Ratlinghope, around past Bridges, then up to the Stiperstones National Nature Reserve.

Up on the Long Mynd I saw, yet again, some wild ponies and, when coming off it, and interesting tree.

I made a wrong turn somewhere, getting as far as Cranberry Rock, so I gave up and sat to eat my lunch beneath Ryk Tor (the, until today, unnamed tor between Cranberry Rock and Manstone Rock).  It was down to Bridges pub for an early dinner of a ploughman’s, now smaller and served on a plate instead of a board, and a cider.  Then it was a return walk to Church Stretton and the B&B.

Day 3