Churches & old buildings:
Every parish has at least one church at its heart:- Unusual spires of St. Mary the Virgin (Cleobury Mortimer) & St. Johns (Mamble)
- Rare alabaster tombs in St.Johns (Kinlet) & All Saints (Neen Sollars)
- Centuries old yews in the churchyards of Silbury, Farlow and Milson
- Saxon origins at St. Mary’s (Stottesdon)
- Industrial connections: Oreton & Clows Top Methodist Chapels, Chorley Baptist Chapel
Most parishes have listed buildings researched by local history societies:
- 1 Grade I listed & 12% Grade II in Neen Savage
- Manor houses of distinction - Hopton Court, Shakenhurst, Mawley, Kinlet Hall & Detton Halls
- Village cottages, farmsteads & mills. Georgian houses and pubs in Cleobury Mortimer
Industrial & geological heritage:
Cleobury Country has a little known industrial heritage since medieval times determined by the wide span of geological ages that underpin its landscape and epitomised by walking the Geopark Way:- Catalogued by village local history societies (Cleobury Mortimer Chronicles)
- Described on village websites (Mamble)
- Documented in publications such as The Story of ‘Kinlet’ (2008)
- Researched with Heritage Lottery funding (The Four Parishes Heritage Group)
- Evidence of many centuries of charcoal making, iron smelting, railway & canal building for coal mining & stone extraction, brick & paper making
- Grant funding has made possible the exploration and restoration of former industrial sites such as Oreton Brick Kiln
Natural heritage:
Wherever you are in Cleobury Country you will hear the cry of buzzards overhead but our rarer species are to be found on small sites of special interest (SSI):- Cramer Gutter (Oreton) bog asphodel, bog pimpernel & marsh gentians and the keeled skimmer and large golden-ringed dragonflies
- Cleobury Mortimer Golf Club crested newts
- Chorley Covert: stinking iris
