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It's a steep pull up Walsgrove Hill from the north, and in the winter it will be slippery and muddy due to the activities of the sheep that live in this field. However, it offers fine views across to the clocktower and beyond.

Abberley Hill trig point, there are not many trig points that are surrounded by large mature trees, it rather defeats the object of surveying!

The ridge of Abberley hill is a fine walk, and that is the reason it forms part of the Worcestershire Way, the Geopark Way and the Abberley Circular.

This is actually a view of Great Witley, Abberley is behind you at this viewpoint

The view from the top across to the clock tower of the school and to Woodbury Hill is a highlight of any walk on Abberley Hill.

View to the West The lower part of Walsgrove Hill and the hill on which Abberley clock tower stands are Silurian siltstone. The valley of the River Teme cuts into soft mudstones of the upper Silurian Old Red Sandstone with the harder sandstones of the lower Devonian Old Red Sandstone forming the Bromyard plateau. The low hummocky ground at the base of these hills is underlain by Carboniferous age Coal Measures rocks. These form the southerly tip of the Wyre Forest coalfield. Coal was mined here until the early twentieth century. To the north west, the Clee Hills are also formed of Carboniferous rocks. A molten layer of rock pushed between the layers and formed a hard black dolerite rock, the Dhustone, which slowed the erosion of these still prominent hills and is quarried for roadstone to this day. Source: Local signage

This view contains many layers of history, dating back thousands of years. The scattered farms of the manor of Abberley were established from at least Anglo Saxon times with the original road system winding around large round fields and the medieval common land. This area is part of the medieval deerpark given to Ralph de Toni by William the Conqueror which stretched up onto Abberley Hill. The manor passed to the Earls of Warwick fairly soon afterwards. Medieval legal documents record frequent fines to local people for breaking in and hunting.

Shelsley Walsh is the oldest motorsport venue in the world still to run events on the original course and is older than Indianapolis, Le Mans or Monza. Brooklands has been and gone, but Shelsley Walsh is still here, as old as the sport but as modern as today.