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Have you ever wondered why the Long Mynd is so different from the other Shropshire Hills? Or why the valleys are such a distinctive shape? Or indeed where on Earth the Long Mynd might have been 500 million years ago?

Much Wenlock is the only Shropshire town in which extensive use of local stone for building gives a really distinctive character to the place. 

180′ view of the Uriconian volcanic rocks forming the Wrekin and Stretton Hills east of the Church Stretton Valley through to the lower lying Carboniferous and Permian rocks.

This leaflet describes why, where and how the walls were built, and includes a trail , circumnavigating the walls which enclose the medieval heart of the town.

Did you know that the area round The Wrekin has the most diverse geology found on Earth? Explore this and more in this walk with accompanying audio.

Visitors to the county may wish to consult the
Geology of Shropshire by Peter Toghill.

No such area in Britain, or perhaps the world, displays such a variety of rock types in such a small area. Shropshire was visited by some of the great pioneers of geology and many fundamental terms and principles of geology are based on the county’s geology. This book explains the geological history of Shropshire, a story based on Shropshire’s incredible journey, lasting 500 million years, from the Antarctic Circle through the Tropics and across the equator to our present latitudes, a distance of 12,000km. This journey, often near to plate boundaries, has resulted in Shropshire displaying rocks of ten of the twelve recognized geological periods of time.

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