Heath Mynd

#4810 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Hill

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Heath Mynd is a hill in the English county of Shropshire. At a height of 452 metres it is fairly unnotable except for its Marilyn status, a feature caused by the sharp drop on all sides. It is connected to Corndon Hill by a low col, and is only just inside England, being just one mile from the border with Wales. The nearby village is Norbury; nearest towns are Bishop's Castle and Church Stretton. Its nearest neighbour is called Cefn Gunthly. ()

Elevation: 1483 ftProminence: 623 ftCoordinates: 52°32'26"N, 2°58'52"W

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WalesUnited Kingdom

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Heath Mynd – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Long Mynd, Snailbeach Mine, Three Tuns Brewery, Corndon Hill.

4.9 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Long Mynd
126 min walk • The Long Mynd is a heath and moorland plateau that forms part of the Shropshire Hills in Shropshire, England. The high ground, which is common land and designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, lies between the Stiperstones range to the west and the Stretton Hills and Wenlock Edge to the east.
5.6 miNE
Museum, Mine
Snailbeach Mine
143 min walk • Snailbeach Countryside Site is an industrial archeology site in Shropshire. It is located three 3 miles south of the village of Pontesbury and around 12 miles from the county town of Shrewsbury. At peak of production during the 19th century, it was reputed to be extracting the largest volume of lead per acre in Europe.
3.3 miS
Nightlife, Brewery
Three Tuns Brewery, Bishop's Castle
84 min walk • The Three Tuns Brewery in Bishop's Castle, Shropshire, England was established in 1642 on its current site, making it the oldest licensed brewery site in Britain.
2.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Corndon Hill
65 min walk • Corndon Hill is a hill in Powys, Mid Wales, whose isolated summit rises to 1,683 ft above sea level. It is surrounded on three sides by the English county of Shropshire and forms a prominent landmark in the Wales-England border.
3.5 miNE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Wild Edric's Way
91 min walk • Wild Edric's Way is a waymarked long distance footpath running wholly within the county of Shropshire in England. The path runs for 49 miles, mostly sharing the route of the Shropshire Way.
4 miW
Church
St Nicholas Church, Church Stoke
102 min walk • St Nicholas's Church, formerly called St Mary's Church until 1881, is a Church of England parish church in Church Stoke, Powys, Wales. The church's current building is largely the result of 19th-century reconstruction, but it retains its 13th-century tower with a later timber belfry.
2.6 miW
Park
Roundton Hill
68 min walk • Roundton Hill is a rounded, steep sided, 1,210 feet hill, volcanic in origin, in the easternmost part of old Montgomeryshire, Wales, which juts into the English border near Church Stoke. It is managed as a nature reserve by the Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust, who acquired it in 1985.
3.4 miNW
Archaeological site
Stapeley Hill
88 min walk • Stapeley Hill is a sacred saddleback shaped hill in South-West Shropshire, near the village of Priestweston, not far from another landmark, Corndon Hill.
3.2 miNW
Memorial
Mitchell's Fold
83 min walk • Mitchell's Fold is a Bronze Age stone circle in southwest Shropshire, located near the small village of White Grit on dry heathland at the southwest end of Stapeley Hill in the civil parish of Chirbury with Brompton, at a height of 1083 ft o.d.
1.4 miW
Village
Hyssington
35 min walk • Hyssington is a parish in the South-Eastern corner of the historic county of Montgomeryshire in Wales and borders the county of Shropshire in England. It is now within the area of the Church Stoke community council in Powys. It is dominated by Corndon Hill.