쉬운 그레이트 컴버튼 주변 하이킹 및 워킹 코스

The climb up is unrelenting, but not too steep. Gives great views north to the Vale and beyond.

A quite impressive rock formation that really does look like an elephant lying down.

This is a fine old church, with a somewhat wonky tower and a magnificent ancient Yew Tree.

The old bridge is picturesque, and its also a great place to while away an hour or two by the river.

As mentioned at an earlier location, when the fog is thick and low in the Avon valley, you can sometimes get amazing sights such as this, where trees emerge the top of the fog.

When the fog is thick and low lying, you can get some amazing sights along this route, such as trees just emerging from the top of the fog.

The folly itself actually looks like it really is an industrial tower housing mobile phone equipment, but the views are very good. Nearby is the Elephant Stone - it looks like an Elephant kneeing down. Not far from the Cotswold Stone drystone wall is the circular stone that marks the very top of Bredon Hill.

Good parking, half a dozen spaces on Woollas Hill, near Deer Park centre. Views on way up to Folly are spectacular. Good to get the climb out the way early with gentle, long descent in to Broadway.

Nice, peaceful footpath (part of both Millennium Way and Pershore Bridges Walk). Not muddy after rains.

The bridleway leads to Tiddesley Wodd, which can be very muddy after heavy rain, so be careful

Park free at the bridge. Make sure you walk to Wick and back. Footpath starts at the old bridge, then across field to the village.

Quiet place. Nice surroundings.

Nice place for break

Kemerton Camp is a hillfort on the top of Bredon Hill in Worcestershire. With a steep escarpment dropping away on the north side of the Hill, it has two sets of ramparts and ditches to the south. The inner ramparts possibly date to 300BC. Excavations at Kemerton Camp in the 1930s uncovered, near the entrance to the inner ramparts of the fort, the burial place of some 50 slaughtered men, along with a great number of weapons. Are they evidence of a last stand against the Roman invasion, or of some internecine strife between warring tribes ? Adjacent to Kemerton Camp is a small stone tower called Parsons Folly (or the Banbury Stone Tower) which was built in the mid-18th century for John Parsons, MP (1732–1805), squire of Kemerton Court and intended as a summer house.

Parsons' Folly was built as a folly in the 18th century by Mr Parsons of Kemerton, it is 39 feet high, the summit of Bredon Hill is 961 feet above sea level thus making the top of the folly exactly 1,000 feet above sea level. Spread below is the vale through which both the Avon and Severn, on the horizon are the Malvern Hills.

The church of ST. MICHAEL consists of a chancel 23 ft. 6 in. by 14 ft. 6 in., with vestry and organ chamber, nave 29 ft. 3 in. by 21 ft. 3 in. and west tower 11 ft. by 8 ft. 6 in. The total length is 65 ft. 6 in., all the measurements being internal. Some of the rubble masonry of the nave may perhaps be of early date, but the church appears to have been almost entirely rebuilt in the 14th century, beginning at the east end. Apart from some small alterations in the 15th century, it remained untouched till modern times, when the vestry and organ chamber were added and the east wall and chancel arch rebuilt. The east window is modern and of three lights, and in the north wall are two 14th-century windows, both of two lights, the first having a pointed and traceried head and the second a square head and ogee lights. Between them is a priest's door, apparently of the early 15th century, with a moulded external label and large stops carved with crowned heads. Both this and the second window now open into the modern vestry. In the south wall is a twolight 14th-century window, similar to the first on the north, and at the west end a modern arch opening into the organ chamber. The pointed chancel arch and roof are modern, and in the east wall to the south of the altar is a 14th-century piscina with a trefoil ogee head, bowl and shelf. The nave is lighted by two 14th-century windows in each wall; the eastern pair are of three trefoiled lights under a pointed head filled with trefoils. The western pair are similar, but of two lights only; the mullions and tracery are all restored, but the openings are original. (fn. 49) The tower arch is of rough construction, and is apparently in an unfinished state; it is the full height of the nave roof and is pointed, with broad roughly chamfered jambs. These are finished on the inside of the tower by chamfered imposts, from which spring arches supporting the side walls. They open into deep recesses formed by continuing the side walls of the nave to the west face of the tower. The northern has an irregular-shaped roof, plastered on the soffit, and in the south wall of the southern is a pointed window of two plain lights. The west window is pointed and of two lights with a quatrefoil in the head, and below it is an early 15th-century pointed west doorway with an external label and head stops of a man and woman. Within it is a small lobby with stone walls and an inner pointed doorway with chamfered jambs having voluted stop-chamfers. The tower is three stages high and finished with an embattled parapet having crocketed pinnacles at the angles and large grotesque gargoyles at the angles of the parapet string. The ground stage is supported by two western buttresses stopping at the level of the second stage, which is lit by loops to the north and south. The bell-chamber has a two-light squareheaded window in each face with trefoiled ogee-headed lights of late 14th-century date. On the south face is a small sundial. There are six bells, the first, second, fourth and fifth by Matthew Bagley, 1687 (probably cast at Evesham); the third and sixth by Taylor of Loughborough, 1869 (the tenor being then added as a new bell). The nave roof is a good example of 14th-century work; it is of wagon form, all the rafters being trussed and having moulded plates, purlins and ridge-piece. The early 15th-century font, under the tower, has an octagonal bowl, each face having a quatrefoil panel and a blank shield, a moulded necking and base. The communion table is Jacobean with turned legs, and there are two chairs of similar date, one with a carved head at the back being particularly good. The quire-stalls are largely made up of Jacobean panelling, and the benches in the nave are probably of the 16th century; they are quite plain, but unusually massive, even the book boards being some 2 in. thick. The plate is modern, and consists of a cup, paten and flagon and a stand paten.

Also known as the Banbury Stone, there is conjecture about the exact origin of the Elephant Stone. Some believe it to be an ancient focus for the dark arts, others say it was a type of amber stone dedicated to the sun by druids. There's also a superstition that if you kiss the stone on Good Friday you will be cursed with bad luck.

Historic Bredon Hill stands proud in isolation. From its 981-foot (299 m) summit you can gaze out across Worcestershire to the Malverns and south into the rolling Cotswolds. Scenic magnificence. The hill was once an Iron Age hillfort, known as Kemerton Camp and it then became an important Roman encampment. In the 18th century, the squire of Kemerton Court erected a small stone tower, Parsons Folly. A number of ancient standing stones also adorn the hill.

This was a key crossing point for traders between London and Worcester. Originally built in the 1400s, various repairs have taken place over the centuries to create the grand structure we see today. There is a popular picnic spot nearby, from which the Pershore Bridges Circular Walk begins. See : https://www.komoot.com/guide/712082 for more inspiration.

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