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unusual facts about Cleobury Mortimer


Cleobury Mortimer

Today the nearest railway stations are on the heritage Severn Valley Railway, with the nearest mainline stations at Ludlow and Kidderminster.


Wyre Forest

Wyre Forest has none the of the legal peculiarities of a historic forest at all, instead has those of a chase (of common land) with hunting rights belonging to the Mortimer family, who had the title Earl of March from 1328, as holders for centuries of the manor and liberty of Cleobury Mortimer, which technically still enjoys such hunting rights.


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Tenbury and Bewdley Railway

The intermediate stations were Wyre Forest, Cleobury Mortimer (Shropshire), Neen Sollars, Newnham Bridge, Tenbury Wells (Shropshire) (originally Tenbury), Easton Court (serving Little Hereford) and Woofferton.