The Wrekin: Telford and The Wrekin High Point
View to the toposcope and transmitter from the Trig Pillar
Significance: Unitary Authority High Point for Telford and The Wrekin
Nearest Higher Neighbour: Caer Caradoc Hill
Historic County: Shropshire (of which Brown Clee Hill is the County Top)
Elevation: 407m
Date climbed: July 27th 2024
Coordinates: 52° 40' 9'' N, 2° 33' 5'' W
Route Start / End: The Wrekin Forest Glen Car Park, Little Wenlock, Telford, TF6 5AL
Route Distance: 7.2 km (4.5 miles)
Route Elevation Change: +/- 307m
Subsidiary tops on route: Little Hill (232m)
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other routes touched (walk): Telford T50, Shropshire Way
OS Trig Pillar: TP0712 - Wrekin
Map: Telford, Ironbridge & The Wrekin Map | Ironbridge Gorge | Ordnance Survey | OS Explorer Map 242
Links: Wikipedia (Telford and The Wrekin, The Wrekin), Peakbagger, Hillbagging
The Wrekin was the literal high point of a day of bagging High Points of the West Midlands. The rest were quick drive-bys in obscure and often dodgy areas so we made the most of the Wrekin trip to make it a circular rather than an out-and-back.
Like most people we started at The Wrekin Forest Glen Car Park. It gets full quickly in the summer but we were lucky and got a space. The annoying thing was that payment is only by credit card or via an app that I’d never seen before. The card machine wasn’t working and there was no mobile signal so we ended up having to pay on-line half-way up the ascent.
With parking drama out of the way we took the shortest route to the summit on the Telford 50 trail. We were there on a clear day so we got a great view at the top across to Wales on the western side and Staffordshire on the east. The summit has an OS trig pillar, a toposcope, a transmitter tower and the remains of an Iron Age fill fort.
From the top we continued walking south-west for another 1 km down to Little Hill. It was marked on the map so we thought we’d check it out but there was little to mark it and no view. Continuing another 20m we took a left onto a footpath, then another left to pick up a path that lead us back to the car-park on a lower level.
