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On 25 July 2012 part of the reserve was devastated by fire, said to have been a result of the sudden upturn in dry, hot weather coupled with the large amount of dry heather on the hills. More than 70 firemen battled the fire between 15.00 and 22.00 BST; smoke could be seen up to 10 miles away in the
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Nipstone Rock has emerged from hiding. Thousands of heather seedlings have been successfully planted to supplement natural regeneration. To balance this out and complement it further work below summit level has also aimed at restoring grasslands, rich in herbs, hay
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The Bog
Visitor Centre is the main facility for visitors to the Stiperstones. It is housed in the former village school and retains its old interior design. It provides historical information about the past workers, mining, and present-day work to restore the landscape. Facilities at the centre
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was mined at The Bog, just west of
Stiperstones. The mine at The Bog and the adjacent Stiperstones outcrop were only viable because of a geological movement; over time the movement of the tectonic plates landed at this site, combined with the movement of the earth it crumpled the layers and the
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include toilets and car parking (with facilities for the disabled including reserved parking, toilets and ramps). Activities include walking, with two main circular walks called
Mucklewick Walk and Flenny Bank Walk and a variety of riding routes.
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softest layers were then eroded away. After mining stopped, the undisturbed remnants provided a range of wildlife habitats: birds nest in the old buildings, bats roost in the old mine tunnels, and reservoirs and ponds are ideal for aquatic life.
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form much of the afforested ground to the west. The outcrop of the
Stipertones Quartzite continues south-southwest to Black Rhadley Hill and peters out just beyond Heath Mynd. To the north-northeast, it continues as far as
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Shineton Shale Formation. Faulting narrows the outcrop of the Mytton Flags along the southern part of the Stiperstones ridge and the mudstones of the Hope Shale Formation with their interbedded
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age rock unit which dips steeply to the WNW is between 120 and 325m thick. The western slopes of the hill dropping to
Stiperstones village are formed in the overlying
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rock of the ridge formed some 480 million years ago. During the
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known as the Stiperstones Quartzite Formation. This
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1000:"Crews put out fire at Stiperstones nature reserve"
335:The Stiperstones ridge is a good place to view the
332:. The Devil's Chair is the largest and best known.
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954:. Shropshire Council. Archived from
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1002:. BBC News Shropshire. 25 July 2012
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428:National Nature Reserve
351:plain and the hills of
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646:and children's author
426:The Stiperstones is a
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565:90 Bisodol (Crimond)
113:52.58194°N 2.93500°W
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1027:Hills of Shropshire
497:Cultural references
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796:Maps Portal
770:Maps Portal
416:periglacial
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91:Coordinates
67:Parent peak
1021:Categories
707:1861268033
656:References
611:Shrewsbury
547:Quintet.
518:Wild Edric
455:ring ouzel
443:red grouse
404:Quaternary
393:Pontesbury
372:sandstones
368:Ordovician
330:trig point
318:The Rock (
224:Shropshire
202:Shattered
190:Landranger
174:Shropshire
101:52°34′55″N
57:Prominence
644:Mary Webb
604:2012 fire
533:Mary Webb
384:mudstones
376:Arenigian
353:Mid Wales
345:Long Mynd
264:quartzite
254:Geography
236:ice sheet
228:quartzite
176:, England
129:Geography
104:2°56′06″W
72:Plynlimon
47:Elevation
908:31 March
555:(1925).
514:folklore
476:and the
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312:SO365969
303:SO365981
294:SO367986
285:SO368991
276:SO373998
204:Cambrian
182:Topo map
170:Location
854:26 July
728:26 July
617:Gallery
587:The Bog
553:St Mawr
529:Normans
464:-based
462:heather
365:faulted
359:Geology
84:Marilyn
79:Listing
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562:album
337:upland
672:(PDF)
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240:scree
216:Welsh
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878:ISBN
856:2012
830:2013
804:2020
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702:ISBN
683:2021
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