Wenlock Edge

Wenlock Edge contains many interesting features such as Flounders' Folly, Wilderhope Manor and Shipton Hall and waymarked walks such as the Shropshire Way and bridleways such as the Jack Mytton Way.

Robert Hart created a model forest garden from a small orchard on his farm called Highwood Hill in Wenlock Edge.

[4] The reef was formed in shallow subtropical seas about 425 million years ago when the area was south of the equator at about the same latitude as the Seychelles is today.

In 1909, Ralph Vaughan Williams composed a song cycle called On Wenlock Edge, which comprises settings of that and five other Housman poems.

It is also the subject of several works by the famous artist L. S. Lowry, with his piece A Bit of Wenlock Edge, which is a fine pencil drawing of the escarpment, detailing the woodland.

In his alternate history novel SS-GB, set in a German-occupied Great Britain during World War II, Len Deighton places a Gestapo concentration camp in Wenlock Edge.