Shropshire Way
Waymarked Way · Shropshire
6,000
XP
a 15-day route
Shropshire Way Association (SWA, formed 2016) is a Registered Charity (2021). SWA's aims are to maintain, preserve and promote the Shropshire Way (ShW) as a long distance path. SWA works with Shropshire Council to define a route.
604 m
304 m
4 m
Scroll along the route · tap the chart to find a point on the map
Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.
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Waze- Shropshire Way - stage 01 · 24 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 02 · 19.1 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 03 · 17.5 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 04 · 18.1 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 05 · 17.2 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 06 · 17.3 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 07 · 18.3 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 08 · 20 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 09 · 17.2 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 10 · 19.1 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 11 · 18.2 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 12 · 24.2 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 13 · 22.3 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 14 · 23.1 km
- Shropshire Way - stage 15 · 19.8 km
- Shropshire Way (Route 11, Link to Severn Way) · 22.9 km
- Shropshire Way - link · 8.5 km
- Shropshire Way - Wem, Whitchurch, Ellemere · 58.3 km
Steep walk
Some very steep ground — marked on the map.
Climb
4953 m
Drop
5337 m
Highest
533 m
Lowest
29 m
Walking time
about 85 h 14 min
A 15-day route, walked in stages. 6,000 XP for the whole route, claimed with a photo from it.
Which way round
Downhill: Climbs 18% for 970 m midway, comes down 22% for 670 m early on.
Uphill: Climbs 22% for 670 m near the end, comes down 18% for 970 m midway.
Shown as the descent, the way a graded trail like this is ridden — the climb back up is usually the forest road.
How the 384.9 km splits
Flat
276.6 km
Climbing
48.1 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
1.3 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
1.9 km
Descending
55.0 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.6 km
Very steep descending (15%+)
0.7 km
Link it with other walks
Severn Way
Shares 11.6 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 0.1, 0.2…363.36 km
Jack Mytton Way
Shares 9.4 km of path · meets at km 124.2, 125.2, 125.8…150.25 km
Humphrey Kynaston Way
Shares 3.6 km of path · meets at km 4.1, 4.3, 5.5…76.14 km
Telford T50
Shares 3.6 km of path · meets at km 102.7, 102.9, 103.1…81.1 km
Cheshire Circuit
Shares 3.5 km of path · meets at km 284.2, 285.3, 286.5…140.73 km
Sandstone Trail
Shares 2.2 km of path · meets at km 284.5, 285.3, 285.6…53.97 km
The Long Mynd and Ratlinghope Walk, Carding Mill Valley
Shares 1.9 km of path · meets at km 232.7, 233.2, 233.7…16.97 km
The Stiperstones Circular
Shares 1.5 km of path · meets at km 225.3, 226.4, 226.5…8.26 km
Ironbridge Walk, Benthall Hall
Shares 1.3 km of path · meets at km 119.6, 120.25.73 km
Major's Leap Walk, Wenlock Edge
Shares 1.1 km of path · meets at km 127.9, 128.0, 128.2…5.27 km