Long Mynd - Pole Bank

About Long Mynd - Pole Bank

Pole Bank is the highest point of the Long Mynd, a heath and moorland plateau forming part of the Shropshire Hills in Shropshire, England. The plateau's high ground, which is common land designated as a National Landscape, lies between the Stiperstones range to the west and the Stretton Hills and Wenlock Edge to the east; much of it is owned by the National Trust and managed by the Longmynd Commoners.

The Long Mynd measures roughly seven miles by three and is broadly characterised by steep valleys on its eastern flanks and a long slope on the western side rising in a steep escarpment. The principal settlements in its vicinity include Church Stretton, Little Stretton and All Stretton, Pulverbatch, Smethcott, Woolstaston, Asterton, Myndtown, Wentnor and Ratlinghope. Pole Bank and the adjacent hill of Caer Caradoc are both classed as Marilyns.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Long Mynd (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Daylight

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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 52.545, -2.864. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Trimble GeoXH 6000

Record revised

10-Apr-21

Drop measured from

SO 4009 9954 · 325.7 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Nearest listed peaks