William Shenstone & The Leasowes Historical Trail
Loop Walk · West Midlands
150
XP
about 52 min walking
A walk around The Leasowes highlighting examples of the landscaping of poet William Shenstone, who lived here and developed it from grazing farms to one of the first natural landscape gardens of England in the 1700s
228 m
178 m
128 m
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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.
Rolling walk
Gentle ups and downs, nothing steep.
Climb
65 m
Drop
65 m
Highest
205 m
Lowest
136 m
Walking time
about 52 min
Which way round
Anticlockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.
Clockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.
No steep ground — the same effort whichever way you go.
Main descent: km 2.3–3.2, from 204 m to 156 m.
How the 3.8 km splits
Flat
1.0 km
Climbing
1.3 km
Descending
1.4 km