Enjoy sweeping views above Shropshire’s rolling hills. Tucked near Jinlye on the edge of the Long Mynd, it’s a peaceful perch for walkers and history buffs alike. With gentle gradients, there’s always space for you to pause and soak up the scenery.
Parking: Open air car park/surface. No parking charges
Accessible Parking: No designated Blue Badge parking is provided
Surface Type of Car Park: Uneven, compact and loose stone. Further grass surface parking available.
Distance from Car Park to Viewpoint: Within 10m.
Bus Stops: Shuttle Bus service is provided. Details of the service are provided on The Shropshire Hills National Landscape Website.
Train Station: The nearest trains station is Church Stretton.
Abbie Blenkarn, an artist with a learning disability, has made a special ceramic tile to help visitors connect with the landscape.
You can find it at the viewpoint.
Abbie moulded clay and materials found in the local area into an organic shape and added simple tactile marks, textures, and words so everyone can ‘feel the landscape’.
This tile is one of a series created for the Open Horizons project, led by Lead Artist Roz Donati of Pneuma Affinity CIC, and made in collaboration with My Options, Telford & Wrekin.
Artist Statement
Abbie is happy and chatty, and she enjoys having lots of fun. She loved taking part in this project and discovered a real passion for working with clay, creating several additional pieces.
In this piece Abbie focussed on the shapes of the rolling hills which can be seen everywhere you look from Jinlye viewpoint. Abbie hopes that people enjoy her design as much as she enjoyed making it.
Level Routes/ Trails: Uneven public footpaths from the viewpoint.
Route Width: Widths 1800+ millimetres.
Gradient: Various gradients to walking routes.
Surface type: Short grass.
Directional arrows: Public footpath with directional arrows provided.
Touch: Heathland plants, such as bracken and gorse.
See: Bowl Barrow of the Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age. Stunning views of Caer Caradoc, Wrekin and Long Mynd.
Smell: No particular smell.
Hear: Wildlife such as birds and bees in the spring and summer months.
No on-site WC facilities.
No on-site accessible WC facilities.
Nearest changing facility is Attingham Park, Shrewsbury, SY4 4TP (10.38 miles/16.7 kilometres).
Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Mytton Oak Road, Shrewsbury SY3 8XQ
Telephone: 01743 261000
A defibrillator is provided at All Stretton Village Hall.
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