Clent Hills - Wikipedia. The Clent Hills lie 1. Birmingham city centre in Clent, Worcestershire, England. The closest towns are Stourbridge and Halesowen, both in the West Midlands conurbation. The Clent Hills range consists of, in order from north- west to south- east: Wychbury Hill, Clent Hill (and Adams Hill), and Walton Hill (and Calcot Hill). Just under a million visitors a year are estimated to come to the hills. Once part of a Mercian forest, the hills contain the remains of a multi- vallate, Iron Agehillfort on Wychbury Hill. Most of the document details honours & awards. Glaze 'decal' to front of town view with heraldic shields & 'Nurnberg. Hurst Spit, Barrier Beach of the West Solent, Hampshire, and Milford-on-Sea: Geology of the Wessex Coast. Internet site: www.southampton.ac.uk/~imw. According to local historian John Amphlett, a battle between ancient Britons and Romans was fought on Clent Heath. Most of them are in the private grounds of Hagley Hall but most of them are visible from public areas. Lord Lyttelton of Hagley Hall constructed the Wychbury Obelisk on Wychbury Hill in 1. Clee Hills. Lord Lyttelton also had constructed many other follies including a Temple of Theseus, other small Greek and Roman temples, a full sized ruined mock castle (his lands did not contain a real one!) and The Four Stones on top of Clent Hill. Kenelm, who was murdered on a hunting trip at the north eastern slopes of Clent Hill in 8. AD. Kenelm in the parish of Romsley marks the site of his murder. The church is the starting point of the 6. St Kenelm's Trail. Kenelm's church. The summits of the two largest hills, Clent Hill and Walton Hill are now the property of the National Trust. Clent Hill Common was managed by a Board of Conservators from 1. Walton Hill Common became regulated common land (under Commons Act 1. Both commons and the woodlands between them were given by Worcestershire County Council and Bromsgrove Rural District Council to the National Trust in 1. Both hills were then managed by a Management Committee of the National Trust until 1. Both the Conservators and Management Committee were largely funded by contributions from neighbouring local authorities, particularly in the Black Country. In 1. 97. 4, the hills became a country park, managed by Hereford & Worcester County Council under the Countryside Act 1. In 1. 99. 5, management reverted to the National Trust, which set up a new Advisory Committee in 2. Housman watched the beacons from summit of Walton Hill. He wrote in a letter to his mother that at 1. June 1. 89. 7 (the hour designated for the event) he could see 5. He did not try to count those northwards because . By 2 o'clock, Houseman wrote that in the distance two could still be seen still burning somewhere near the Brown Clee, and three nearer, one towards Droitwich, one on Kinver Edge (it continued to burnt brightly until dawn), and the Clent Hill beacon which was not near the summit but on the south west face. Another was lit on 4 June 2. Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II. It was 1. 2 feet (3. Clent Hill close to the Four Stones. On a clear day you can even see as far as the Black Mountains of Wales, the Cotswolds, the Peak District and Charnwood Forest. A toposcope indicates the mountains visible. Landmarks visible from the hills include Dudley Castle, the large Droitwich AM transmitters near Bromsgrove, the large silos on the British Sugar Corporation land in Kidderminster, Ironbridge Power Station, near Telford and the nearby Wychbury Obelisk. It is because of this that the hills are very popular with hillwalking visitors and local ramblers groups. The hills are criss- crossed with many public footpaths. A popular means of access to Clent Hill is from Nimmings car park, off Hagley Wood Lane. From this an easy access walk route leads to the ridge. Another popular access is from the public car park on Adams Hill. Adams Hill is not a separate hill, but the name for the hamlet (part of the parish of Clent) and the slope that form the south west flank of Clent Hill. In 2. 00. 9 Cooper Partnership (a firm of Chartered Landscape Architects) were commissioned to . At 2. 2 miles (3. Clent Hills was the most distant. They rated importance of the view as special and the sensitivity as high and wrote that the Clent Hills had . Malvern Hills seen to the left of view in the context of other hill ranges seen to the centre and right of view. Generally hilly foreground with scattered settlements on lower lying land. Urban areas of Kidderminster and Stourbridge seen in centre mid- ground. The distinctive outline of the Malvern Hill peaks is seen on the distant skyline as a back- drop to the view in the left of view, and appears further in distance to the other hill ranges seen to the centre/right distance. Far- fetching views of hill ranges, including that of Malvern Hills is impressive, across a generally rural setting. They are separated by a valley known as St. Kenelm's Pass, which starts as an escarpment one side of which along with the sides of the two hills falls away towards Uffmoor Wood; water flowing down this slope enters streams which become the River Stour. Close to the top of the escarpment, but just on the other side, stands High Harcourt Farm (which belongs to the National Trust. Below the farm the escarpment falls away and becomes a sharp V valley in which a stream flows down into Clent village. Where the valley sides are at their steepest the Walton Hill side of the valley is known as Clatterbach. In the past, before steam power replaced water power, the stream in the valley was dammed at regular intervals to provide power for watermills. The remains of one such dam can be seen behind the Vine Inn in Clent which was once a mill. Beside Clent Hill is Wychbury Hill and beside Walton Hill is Calcot Hill. Calcot Hill is not really a separate hill but at the end of a long spur which runs from the summit of Walton Hill for about a mile. There is a public footpath along the spur joining the two hills. Alongside the spur is another deep V shaped valley which was also dammed at frequent intervals to provide power to its mills. This stream flows on to the village of Belbroughton in which the Nash Crown Scythe Works used the water to power its machinery. On the other side of the valley is Romsley Hill, the valley banks of which are covered by Great Farley Wood beyond Romsley Hill are a number of lower hills (Windmill, Chapman's and Waseley) which join the Clent Hills to the Lickey Hills in one continuous chain. The National Trust land on the hills encompass 4. Shenstone garden at The Leasowes was one of the most notable gardens in England in the mid- 1. Unconnected Thoughts on Gardening one of the more influential of the age. Shenstone later wrote a letter about the encounter which was published in 1. They conversed about a small nearby feature called Farmers Hill and Thomson suggested that Shenstone should extend his garden, but Shenstone explained to him that he would rather take which was already there and augment it . As his guests could not stay long owing to a dinner engagement they were unable to visit Shenstone's upper wood, but warming to Shenstone suggestion on how to improve the landscape Shepstone wrote that the conversation continued thus. Her robe is ready made; you have only to caress her; love her; kiss her; and then - -- descend into the valley. The result of the project was the poem 'Poem to Clent', lines from which can be found en route to the Four Stones, on the new Clent Hills archway, launched in December 2. Retrieved 8 August 2. Retrieved August 2. The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London. The Long Distance Walkers Association. Because the Clent Hills are adjacent to the West Midlands, day visitors from that county are included while day visitors from Worcestershire to the Malvern Hills or Worcester Cathedral, who live as close to those amenities as people from the West Midlands do to the Clent Hills are excluded from the survey.^Amphlett, John. A Short History of Clent. Clent History Society. Trinity Mirror Midlands. Retrieved 1. 2 August 2. Archived from the original on 2. June 2. 01. 1. Retrieved 2. July 2. 01. 0. Oxford University Press. Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Malvern Hills AONB 2. Cambridge county Geographies: Worcestershire (4 ed.). Cambridge University Press (CUP) Archive. A regional geography of the British Isles (revised ed.). Retrieved November 2. Retrieved August 2. British Geological Survey. The European magazine: and London review.
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