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Hawkstone Park Grotto

Weston-under-Redcastle, Shropshire

Dark tunnels, a grotto and a hermit who was paid to live there.

In the 1700s the Hill family turned the cliffs of Hawkstone into a fantasy landscape of follies, with caves, bridges, a ruined castle and a grotto lit by coloured glass. It was so fashionable to have a hermit that one was employed to live in a hermitage here.

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When
1700s
Where
52.8600, -2.6300
Group
Caves & grottoes

Visiting

Hawkstone Park Follies are open in season. Bring a torch.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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