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With my back towards Brown Clee, a 30-mile panorama swept from The Wrekin, in the north, along Wenlock Edge to Caer Caradoc in the South Shropshire hills and the hills of Clun Forest and beyond.
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Looking at it from the east, Wenlock Edge lost the drama of its wooded brow and instead the gentler dip slope, with its wonky grid of hedged fields, rose out of Corve Dale like a 20-mile-long wave, the weight of England behind it, racing to break against the misty hills of Wales.
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Country diary: Paul Evans on the song of the robin at Wenlock Edge
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All along Wenlock Edge through hedge and wood's edge, quarry scrub and roadside verge, in abandoned unnoticed places, the roses bloomed with subtle power.
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Country diary: Paul Evans on the song of the robin at Wenlock Edge
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As a stiff breeze flapped against the top of Edge wood, spitting birds, butterflies and bits of leaf out into the sheltered lee, I picked up a lump of Wenlock Edge.
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Here was the west: that which could not be seen from Wenlock Edge but felt there, the power beyond trees and the hills.
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Young Adams was one of her first guests, and drove about Wenlock Edge and the Wrekin with her, learning the loveliness of this exquisite country, and its stores of curious antiquity.
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Infinitely to his bewilderment, Sir Charles informed him that the first vertebrate was a very respectable fish, among the earliest of all fossils, which had lived, and whose bones were still reposing, under Adamss own favorite Abbey on Wenlock Edge.
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As he lay on Wenlock Edge, with the sheep nibbling the grass close about him as they or their betters had nibbled the grass, or whatever there was to nibble, in the Silurian kingdom of Pteraspis, he seemed to have fallen on an evolution far more wonderful than that of fishes.
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