Looking east from Bury Ditches towards Short Wood (Scan from 2002)

Dating from about 500BC, Bury Ditches is home to one of the best-preserved hill forts in the country.

The view from the top, where we had dinner, is magnificent, including some of the hills we had already climbed on the Shropshire Way. (The Stiperstones, Wenlock Edge, and the Clee Hills.) Also visible is the Clun Forest and the Kerry Hills. The view from here had been lost for several years due to the plantation of conifers by the Forrestry Commision, but in 1978 a storm flattened many of them and they have not been replanted.