Kinver Edge & Rock Houses

Thursday 24th March 
Day 1

This weeks day trip was a quick drive down the road to Kinver Edge in Staffordshire.

Kinver Edge

Considering we only live 4 miles away it has been years or closer to decades since we last visited, after Adele had finished work we drove down the A449 to Kinver, we had thought that we would go up onto the 'Edge' first, then visit the National Trusts rock houses then may be call into the village on the way home but as the day unfolded we ran out of time to go into the village.

We arrived on Kinver Edge around 11.00am we checked out the display boards and decided to take one of the walks 


we took the purple route, a steady 2.5 mile circular walk around the 'Edge' taking in the woods, heathland, around to 'Nannys Rock' and up onto the iron age hill fort, before returning to the van for lunch, the sun was shining as we began our walk.
The forest walk was lovely with only the sounds of bird song to accompany us, after a mile or so we came to 'Nanny's Rock' a large cavern with five compartments which was apparently never converted into a house. For many years it was known as 'Meg-o-Fox-Hole'; the parish register records the death on 8 June 1617 of one 'Margaret of the fox earth' who may have lived there. 






we continued our walk following the purple way markers out onto the heathland, according to my phone we had already done 2.8 miles and it felt we hadn't got half way.
The path took us up hill though more woodland full of pines, it was so peaceful.

We eventually made it to the top of the 'edge' and walked around the Iron Age hill fort and took in the spectacular views over the village of Kinver and out over the Staffordshire countryside. It was down hill from now on, we came across the National Trusts 'Holy Austin' rock houses but by now Izzy was really suffering from the long walk and we needed a spot of lunch so returned to the van, passing the original noticed board at our start point where, on reading again found it a 5 mile walk taking 2.5 hours we had mis-read it, no wonder Izzy is worn out.


After lunch we took the short stroll to the Holy Austin Rock houses, built or rather carved into the sandstone rock which were the last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England. The tiered homes were occupied for more than 200 years.
At their height, as many as 11 families occupied the various cave houses. None of the Holy Austin Rock Houses had running water or electricity, even after these commodities became commonplace in the average household, these fascinating houses were abandoned in the 1960s.




The National Trusts volunteers gave us a brilliant insight into the lifestyles of the families that lived here and the history of the site, were wondered around exploring for ages, so long in fact that the site had closed.
We returned once again to the van for a cup of tea before returning home having had a really lovely day.

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Trip Details:

Miles: 11
Ave MPG: 32.2 
Fuel Cost: £4.09 / £1.799 ltr
Car Parking: £0.00

Nights: 0
Camp Fees: £0.00
Camp Ave per night: £0.00 

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Kinver Edge & The Rock Houses

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