Wenlock Edge Jenny Wind walk
This easy circular walk is an enjoyable stroll through green lanes with views across the Shropshire countryside. Look out for remnants of the area's industrial past, with disused quarries along the way. There's plenty of wildlife to appreciate, with unimproved meadows on the trail and limestone loving plants to spot.
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Wenlock EdgeStart point
Much Wenlock National Trust car park, OS grid reference SO613996Trail information
Difficulty
Accessibility*
Full trail
DistanceMiles: 2.2 (km: 3.52)Historical tramway
Look out for the shallow bed of the Jenny Wind tramway, which once lowered limestone from the Wenlock Edge quarry to a bank of limekilns.
Total stages: 5
Total stages: 5
Start point
Much Wenlock National Trust car park, OS grid reference SO613996
Stage 1
Follow the path from the car park and turn left up Blakeway Hollow.
Stage 2
At the junction of pathways, just inside the trees on the crest of the Edge, curve right, downhill to Harley Bank, where there is a viewpoint on the left called Granham’s Mount. 200 metres on, turn right, uphill.
Stage 3
Notice the shallow bed of the ‘Jenny Wind’ dropping down slope. Ignore the next junction and continue uphill where the path opens into a large coppiced area. Continue straight on at the next junction and take the path to the right, up through Smokeyhole Quarry.
Stage 4
Two excavated pot kilns sit beside the trail. Look for rare twayblade orchids nearby. When a winding path emerges 1/3 mile later, passing a disused quarry on the right, go up some steps and over a stile, then turn left along the field edge, crossing a minor road past Stokes Barn.
Stage 5
Take the way-marked path on the right down. Turn left onto Blakeway Hollow and then right into the car park. The path descends over unimproved meadows, where cowslips, common spotted and pyramidal orchids can be found in the limestone grassland.
End point
Much Wenlock National Trust car park, OS grid reference SO613996
Trail map
Jenny Wind trail, Wenlock Edge | © Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey
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