Both walks started at the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre in Craven Arms. After crossing the River Onny and climbing up to the edge of Nortoncamp Wood, the two groups separted, the long-walkers climbing up to the Norton Camp - a renowned double rampart and ditch of Iron Age defences which may be over 2500 years old and the short-walkers taking a lower path overlooking the valley of the Onny. Both groups then dropped down to reach and cross the River Onny to reach Stokesay Castle for lunch. The short walkers then approached the Discovery Centre across Onny Meadows for refreshments and the opportunity to meet the Condover mammoth, a popular, replica skeleton of an adult male mammoth discovered in 1986 in a local quarry. The long walkers took to the hills again in Stoke Wood and Sallow Coppice before returning to the start in declinng weather.
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| River Onny |
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| Guard of honour as the fast group catch up with the short-walkers |
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| Distant viewof Stokesay Castle across the River Onny |
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| Bridge over the Onny - short walkers |
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| Bridge over the Onny - long walkers |
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| Limekilns near one of the many local limestone quarries |
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| Approaching Stokesay Castle (English Heritage) |
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| Gatehouse to Stokesay Castle, one of the best preserved 13th-century fortified manor houses in England |
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| Lunch outside Church of St John the Baptist (1150) |
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| Replica of the Condover mammoth |
