If you are up on Bromlow Callow, how is the weather?
We hope you will find this information useful.
Some history on Bromlow Callow:
Some local people have suggested that this ring of trees was a marker for drovers, but there seems to be little evidence for this claim.
It's possible that the clump of trees on the hill is a quite recent addition, as the hill is not depicted with trees in c18 maps, and the word Callow is apparently from the Old English word for bald or bare. However, at the beginning of c20 at least part of the hill was wooded and the trees on the lower slopes were felled in 1937.
The Mary Webb Society believes that Bromlow Callow is indeed the Callow of Gone to Earth:
“It was cold in the Callow—a spinney of silver birches and larches that topped a round hill. A purple mist hinted of buds in the tree-tops, and a fainter purple haunted the vistas between the silver and brown boles”
If this is your first time in the area you might like to try these local high points:
- Corndon Hill grid ref SO 30614 96917
- Mucklewick Hill grid ref SO 33088 97061
- Beacon Ring grid ref SJ 26483 05801
- Earl’s Hill grid ref SJ 40934 04850
- The Stiperstones grid ref SO 36752 98640
- Roundton Hill grid ref SO 29371 94995
- Rodney’s Pillar grid ref SJ 29531 14409
Walking with Offa | Shropshire's Great Outdoors (shropshiresgreatoutdoors.co.uk)
Selected walking routes in the Shropshire Hills and Ludlow (visitshropshirehills.co.uk)
The granite boulder was quarried at Trawsfynydd, North of Dolgellau, and was supplied and cut by Mid Wales Stone, Donalog.
This Toposcope was designed and commissioned for Worthen with Shelve Parish Council by Councillor David Croker with the help of the following Councillors:
Mal Fellows, John Soper and Benno Veenstra.
It is hoped that both strangers and locals will find it useful for showing Bromlow Callow and its position within the wider landscape. We hope this will encourage walkers to take the plunge and further explore this wilder and beautiful part of Shropshire.
These photos show how this toposcope took shape.