On 6th June 2022 Mel and I stopped off at Carding Mill Valley at Church Stretton on our way back from Shrewsbury. Initially we only planned to have a quick look as Mel doesn't really do walking.
A look on the information board and Mel was happy to walk the short walk up to the reservoir.
Carding Mill Valley is run by the National Trust and is just outside Church Stretton in Shropshire. With 10 miles of tracks and bridleways, it is the ideal place for serious hikers. Shorter walks with some accessible paths make it ideal for families as well. It has breathtaking landscape, wild ponies wandering the hillside, a small reservoir that welcomes wild swimmers and a café.
We walk a short stretch us a gentle hill up to the Reservoir, in an area known as New Hollow Pool, named after two early mill pools.
We climb the reservoir's retaining bank and cross the stile into the enclosure.
Would be nice to have a swim here, but not today.
We return back the way we came after a very short walk, just over a mile and a half.
This is an amazing area and I have plans to return to walk the Long Mynd and then the Stiperstones the next day. Hopefully this will happen soon.
