The Bog Parking

The Bog Parking is a parking area in Worthen with Shelve, Shropshire, England. The Bog Parking is situated nearby to The Bog Mine, as well as near The Bog Visitor Centre.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Stiperstones and Hoarstones.

Stiperstones

Peak

Photo: Martyn B, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Stiperstones is a distinctive hill in Shropshire, England. The quartzite rock of the ridge formed some 480 million years ago. During the last Ice Age Stiperstones lay on the eastern margin of the Welsh ice sheet.

Hoarstones

Archaeological site

Photo: Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Hoarstones, or Hoar Stone Circle, is a stone circle in the civil parish of Chirbury with Brompton in the English county of Shropshire. The Hoarstones are part of a tradition of stone circle construction that spread throughout much of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Ages, over a period between 3300 and 900 BCE. Hoarstones is situated 2½ miles northwest of The Bog Parking.

Horse Shoe Inn

Pub

Photo: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Horse Shoe Inn is a pub, which is situated 2½ miles east of The Bog Parking.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Bog and Shelve.

The Bog

Locality

The Bog is a former mining community in Shropshire, England. It lies 6 miles north of Bishops Castle, east of the A488, at grid reference SO355979. It was once a busy village with over 200 buildings.

Shelve

Village

Photo: John Poyser, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Shelve is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Worthen with Shelve in Shropshire district of Shropshire, England. It is to the west of the Stiperstones ridge and east of Stapeley Hill, at an altitude of about 342 metres, and is some 2 miles from the England–Wales border to the west.