Meet at a small car park situated at the base of Rodney's Pillar Grid Refence 296149 Landranger 126 Shrewsbury and Oswestry. (the car park is not shown on the OS map)

I suspect that many of you have not even heard of these hills. They lie approximately 12 miles to the west of Shrewsbury and 10 miles to the south of Oswestry.

The planned walk involves the ascent of 3 of the hills in this mighty range! The first part of the walk involves a steepish ascent of Rodney's Pillar.Given good weather you will be able to see from the top of Rodney's Pillar the following landmarks- the flood plain of the river Severn, The Long Mind, The Wrekin, The Arans, the Berwyns and Cader Idris. From this point it is a steady descent through woodland before another steady climb to Moel y Golfa at a lofty height of 403 metres. The route then ascends the grassy Middleton Hill before dropping down towards the river Severn. We then follow the river for a couple of miles before crossing farm fields and returning to the cars. The walk is in total approximately 10 miles through lovely varied scenery.

The distance to the Breidden Hills is approximately 70+ miles from south Manchester, surprisingly enough the journey only took me only 1 hour 20 minutes from Stockport. Suggested route to get there is down past Chester, by-pass Oswestry on the A5(T), through the village of Pant, 5 kilometres beyond Pant turn left and take the B4393, go along this road for approx 5 kilometres, as soon as have gone over the river Severn turn right onto a minor road which takes you past a working quarry, there is a quarry car park there, do not stop there but keep going for another ½k,(there is a sharp left bend at the quarry car park) our car park is in the small hamlet of Criggion at the base of Rodney's Pillar. If you have any problems with the directions then give me a ring.