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The southern part of Boraston viewed from close to Aston Bank.

A telephone box and timber-framed black and white cottage in the village of Boraston.

Boraston church dates from the 13th century and was renewed and enlarged in 1884-1887 by Henry Curzon. The church has no dedication. It is Grade II listed. Historic England description Church. C13, renewed and enlarged 1884-1887 by Henry Curzon. Stone rubble with ashlar dressing to nave, ashlar to chancel and lower stage of tower, upper stage of tower weatherboarded. Plain-tile roofs, with shingled broach spire. PLAN: chancel with north vestry, nave, tower with south porch. EXTERIOR: chancel with late C19 hipped apsidal east end with projecting raised gable-end with verge rafters on carved brackets, and east window of twin lancets surmounted by vesica. Lancets in Early English style to canted walls and south wall. Late C19 vestry with hipped tiled roof with door and 3-light mullion window, both with plain chamfered jambs with rounded tops. Ashlar ridge chimney with octagonal shaft. Nave: north wall with 3 restored cusped lancets and blocked plain Norman north doorway. South wall with restored cusped lancet to right and 2 C19 flat-headed windows with cusped ogee tracery. Vestiges of blocked Norman south doorway. Tower: lower stage with pointed arched south doorway with hoodmould over. Large cinquefoil window to west and lancet to north in Early English style. Upper stage of weatherboarded timber frame jettied off ashlar corbels. Timber bell-openings on each face with ogee lintels and louvres on cusped projecting mullions. Shingle covered broach spire with sprocket eaves. South porch set in angle of tower and nave. Steep tiled gabled roof with bargeboards, shingled apex to truss with carved tie beam with projecting cross set on bracket, cusped ogee arch set under tie, oak timber-framed side walls on high ashlar plinth. INTERIOR: 2-bay chancel consisting of single bay and apsidal bay. c1884 pulpit, chancel screen and lectern. 4-bay nave roof with 4 trusses of twin swept raking struts and one vertical strut all set below collar, chamfered tie beam with plain stepped chamfer stops. Restored single-purlin roof with scissor-trussed rafters. c1700 font has bowl with raised spirals with vestiges of earlier carving now eroded. Source: Link

Traditional red-brick farm buildings at Boraston Court.

Traditional red-brick farm buildings at Boraston Court.

Entrance to traditional red-brick farm buildings at Boraston Court.

A disused Victorian letterbox in an old red-brick farm building in Boraston.

An old red-brick hay barn with regular ventilation holes.

A public bridleway from a T-junction to the west of Boraston to Nash Court Farm.

Road junction near Nash mid-way between Tenbury Wells and Clee Hill.

A small wood on one of the steep small hills that are a distinctive feature of the Teme Valley downstream of Tenbury.

Hilly country with watercourses cutting deep valleys as they descend off Clee Hill down to the Teme.

Grassland north of Boraston.

Field under Clee Hill on the southern side of Clee Hill near Coreley.

Thank goodness I was not on the bike today as the mix of mud and thorns from recently cut hedges would prove most trying. In drier times and when the birds are nesting so flail cutting is banned, this is great cycling country in a maze of hilly, tiny lanes, often with grass growing down the centre strip. Some Clee Hill lanes have been decommissioned and are no longer maintained by Shropshire County Council (I don't know if Worcestershire did this as well). View towards a ford near Coreley.

Looking down the green lane which used to be a through route to the Trapnell but is now a dead end due to a landowner forcing through its closure! Taken on a snowy walk with more snow just about to fall.

From B4214 north