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Shropshire upland plateau, .
The area is cut into by a succession of deep and very beautiful valleys. The Longmynd is about 6 miles in length and extends from Plowden in the SW. to Ratlinghope in the NE.
Malcolm Saville (1901-1982) used it as the setting for many of his children's stories.
Mary Webb (1881-1927) gave it the fictitious name of the Wilderhope range in The Golden Arrow (1916).
The Rev. Donald Carr, Rector of Woolstaston, recalled an unwelcome adventure in the area around Light Spout waterfall in his book published as A night in the snow. Sheena Porter recalled this in her children's novel The knockers (1965) which tells of a group of children trying to solve a mystery of eerie knocking sounds heard in the valleys of the Longmynd.
Location map of Longmynd courtesy of Streetmap.co.uk
Page created 1 October 2002 and last updated
8 October 2002
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