Mine Spoil Heap
Mine Spoil Heap is a landfill in Worthen with Shelve, Shropshire, England. Mine Spoil Heap is situated nearby to the forest Hidden Valley Wood, as well as near Ritton Castle.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. Stiperstones is situated 1½ miles east of Mine Spoil Heap.
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 2 miles northwest of Mine Spoil Heap.
Mitchell’s Fold
Archaeological site
Photo: Dave Croker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 353 metres AOD. Mitchell’s Fold is situated 2½ miles west of Mine Spoil Heap.
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.
White Grit
Hamlet
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
White Grit is a small, scattered village beneath Corndon Hill in Powys, Wales, directly on the border with Shropshire. The nearby village of Priest Weston, despite being in England, actually lies to the west of White Grit. White Grit is situated 2 miles west of Mine Spoil Heap.
Mine Spoil Heap
- Type: Landfill
- Location: Worthen with Shelve, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.57418° or 52° 34′ 27″ northLongitude
-2.96962° or 2° 58′ 11″ westOpen location code
9C4VH2FJ+M5OpenStreetMap ID
way 1527977431OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=landfill
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