The Burway over the Long Mynd

Shropshire's highest road, a single-track shelf onto the Long Mynd plateau.

The Burway climbs out of Church Stretton onto the Long Mynd, a narrow single-track shelf with a steep drop on one side and the hillside on the other as it works up to nearly 500m and Shropshire's highest public road. The exposure is real and the views over the Stretton valley are the draw. It is more nerve than pace, with passing places rather than corners to attack. Mind the unguarded drop with no barrier, oncoming cars on blind single-track sections, and free-roaming sheep and ponies on the open top.