"A little known architectural, industrial and geological heritage"

Churches & old buildings

Every parish has at least one church at its heart:

Unusual spires of St. Mary the Virgin (Cleobury Mortimer) & St. Johns (Mamble) Rare alabaster tombs in St.Johns (Kinlet) & All Saints (Neen Sollars) Centuries old yews in the churchyards of Silbury, Farlow and Milson Saxon origins at St. Mary’s (Stottesdon) Industrial connections: Oreton & Clows Top Methodist Chapels, Chorley Baptist Chapel




Most parishes have listed buildings researched by local history societies:

1 Grade I listed & 12% Grade II in Neen Savage Manor houses of distinction - Hopton Court, Shakenhurst, Mawley, Kinlet Hall &Detton Halls. Village cottages, farmsteads & mills. Georgian houses and pubs in Cleobury Mortimer.




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Industrial & geological heritage

Cleobury Country has a little known industrial heritage since medieval times determined by the wide span of geological ages that underpin its landscape and epitomised by walking the Geopark Way

 

Catalogued by village local history societies (Cleobury Mortimer Chronicles) Described on village websites (Mamble) Documented in publications such as The Story of ‘Kinlet’ (2008) Researched with Heritage Lottery funding (The Four Parishes Heritage Group) Evidence of many centuries of charcoal making, iron smelting, railway & canal building for coal mining & stone extraction, brick & paper making Grant funding has made possible the exploration and restoration of former industrial sites such as Oreton Brick Kiln.

Natural heritage

Wherever you are in Cleobury Country you will hear the cry of buzzards overhead but our rarer species are to be found on small SSI’s:

 

Cramer Gutter (Oreton) bog asphodel, bog pimpernel & marsh gentians and the keeled skimmer and large golden-ringed dragonflies Cleobury Mortimer Golf Club crested newts Chorley Covert: stinking iris