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Wren's Nest UNESCO Black Country Geopark Geotrail

Loop Walk · West Midlands

150

XP

about 31 min walking

Easy
2.31 km
Loop
Graded from its length and climb.

Trail around highlights of the UNESCO Global Geopark through strata making up 1.3 million years of Earth's history- once a shallow sea bed, see evidence of volcanic eruptions and fossil beds. Quarried intensely, see evidence of such excavations throughout

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279 m

229 m

179 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.

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Rolling walk

Gentle ups and downs, nothing steep.

Climb

39 m

Drop

38 m

Highest

232 m

Lowest

195 m

Walking time

about 32 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.

How the 2.3 km splits

Flat

0.6 km

Climbing

0.8 km

Descending

0.9 km

Link it with other walks

The Limestone Way

Shares 0.9 km of path · meets at km 0.3, 1.4, 2.1

8.22 km

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