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I'm putting together a map of the tracks and walks and everything!
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An independent group of individuals who share a love of The Wrekin
and a determination to see it preserved for the good of its
communities, landscape, wildlife and heritage.
Read more about Purpose, principles, activities and structure.
Some promotions about The Wrekin:
The Wrekin Hill
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This book is available for £12.99 from all good booksellers and the Halfway
House after the launch on 8th April 2007, or direct from Allan himself, in
which case send a Sterling cheque for £12.99 made payable to ALLAN FROST at
1 Buttermere Drive, Priorslee, Telford, Shropshire, TF2 9RE, United Kingdom.
Overseas buyers should send an International Money Order for that amount
(there is no additional charge for postage for this book).
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The book is available from all good booksellers and the Halfway House on
The Wrekin after the official launch at the end of October 2006 or direct
from Allan himself, in which case please send a Sterling cheque for £5.99
made payable to ALLAN FROST at 1 Buttermere Drive, Priorslee, Telford,
Shropshire, TF2 9RE, United Kingdom. If you live outside the United Kingdom,
send an International Money Order for £6.99 made payable to Allan Frost at
the above address.
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George Evans, the venerable chairman of All
Friends Around The Wrekin has a booklet out. Already on its second
reprint and the only book about The Wrekin, like ever!
Join George for a walk up and around The Wrekin, learn all the important landmarks and all the historical aspects of The Wrekin.
BTW: A fern ticket is the mythical permit to adventure on The Wrekin or
in its magical forest. Couples spotted leaving a dance at the Forest
Glen were asked. "Have you got your fern ticket?"
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Recipes taught to the pupils of Wrekin Road School in 1904 with
Emmie Teece's memories of the Wellington area in the years before
World War One.
£2.99 All proceeds to the Wrekin Appeal
Available from : Langlands Records, Wellington; Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury
Hope for Wrekin visitor centre : Shropshire Star:
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"A new visitor centre for Shropshire's landmark hill could soon become a reality, thanks to cash backing from Telford & Wrekin Council.
A public consultation programme will start in the new year over exactly what should be done to cater for the thousands of people visiting The Wrekin each year. [Public? Everything SWT does is shady, behind closed doors. Thousands? Mostly regulars/locals—according to one study.]
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The most likely location is the "donkey field" -- a patch of open land to the north of the hill -- which would be big enough for a visitor centre, car park and its own area of woodland. [Open land? A field of wild grasses and a haven for butterflies—in Pete Lambert's own words. Not to mention the frogs!]
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The news was broken at Little Wenlock Village Hall last night at a public meeting to review the past year of work by the Wrekin Forest Project, a scheme to look after the hill and surrounding countryside for future generations. [Look after for future generations? Turn it into a car park!]
Pete Lambert, Wrekin Forest Project officer for Shropshire Wildlife Trust, said Telford & Wrekin Council had made a grant of £35,000 which would enable him to press ahead with various schemes, including a feasibility study into a visitor centre.
He said he hoped to come back with firm proposals early in 2009 for people to look at."[All hell and the angry save-the-countryside mob will be shouting at your proposals.]
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Would tear down this fence and put a 'better managed fence' in.
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Hope? All we wanted was the toilets re-opened. But we get the donkey field dug up for a super car park, which will remain empty week days and rainy weekends. Mostly ignored by locals and regular users. Visited by the occasional school bus load to buy kit-kats and coke. A white elephant costing (who) hundreds of thousands in up-keep.
SWT is a funding juggernaut, once it rolls into town, it paves, plaques, sign-posts and develops, because it has to; to keep its tiny number of workers in jobs.
We are out of the frying pan into the fire.
Goodbye wild Wrekin. Hello inner city park.
"No new development on The Wrekin?" Tosh!
SWT fights the landowners who want to develop then pays the landowners to develop. SWT is not a wildlife trust. It's a developer of wild places.
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[BTW; I'm going to print these pictures (except for the unfinished fence) and sell them to raise funds to fight SWT. If you want one, email me so I can judge demand... And say how much you'd donate to get one. 16" x 20" high definition. I'll have them available at Tom's to inspect tomorrow afternoon (Sat). I'll also contact our treasurer and get something sorted. Here's a detail of one, so you can see the true quailty.
We're going to need money to battle the politicos and the SWT and the landowner. If Barack Obama can use the Internet to raise money to change the world, we can do it too. Yes we can.]
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Hope for Wrekin visitor centre : Shropshire Star:
