Talk:Clent Hills

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Visitors[edit]

Does anyone no how many visiters clent hills gets - unsigned

I have seen estimates as high as 600,000 and 900,000 per year. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:57, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nimmings[edit]

I have removed the reference to a 'visitor centre', because the privately-run cafe is not one. Peterkingiron 15:10, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Geology - Clent Breccia[edit]

Perhapse someone would like to extract the information on "Clent Breccia" from these articles: Lickey Hills - Geology, SLING GRAVEL PITS(pdf), End-Carboniferous fold-thrust structures, Oxfordshire, UK ... --Philip Baird Shearer 23:29, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Recent expansions[edit]

My recent additions to this article probably (strictly) constitute original research, since they are based on archival sources. Much of the information could probably also be deriveed from local newspapers. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:56, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Clean up needed[edit]

The article is full of interesting information but still reads more like a tourist brochure, and as such includes typical weasel words and is still completely unreferenced. The article needs a complete copy edit for NPOV whilst retazining all the info that must be sourced. The tagging is not intended as criticism, but more to highlight some of the many places in the text that need urgent attention.--Kudpung (talk) 14:12, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was an editor (rather than author) of this article.
  • Multivallate is the correct techical term for a hillfort with two or more ramparts (as opposed to univallate). I have therefore removed that tag.
  • Material on the ownership and management of the hills since the 1870s is correct, but my information on much of it is from archival sources. The source to quote will ultimately be a Natioanl Trust booklet, but that remains incomplete. Until it appears, I must ask for patience as to the lack of sources.
  • "Most popular" etc is correct, but it will be difficult to provide a quotable source on this. Peterkingiron (talk) 23:02, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Found a source that both gives numbers and states that Clent is the most popular hill: Royle, Julie (20 October 2008). "Local walks: Clent Hills". Worcester News. -- PBS (talk) 00:13, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Clent Hills, New Zealand[edit]

While searching for "Clent Hills" "Most Polular", I came across this: Clent Hills

So I searched further and found these:

As Christchurch, New Zealand has a Hagley Park, I suppose it is no supprising that an area on the South Island would have been called Clent Hills --PBS (talk) 09:28, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is almost certainly the result of Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham having been Governor-General of New Zealand from 1957-1962. My guess is that both these were named in his honour. Hagley Hall has of course been the family home these 250 years (approximately). Peterkingiron (talk) 17:44, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It seems the the antipodean Clent also has a river Stour (Mabin, M. C. G. (1984). "Late Pliestocine glacial sequence in the Lake Heron basin, Mid Caterbury". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 27: 191–202.).

Francis Brett Young[edit]

From Michael Hall FRANCIS BRETT YOUNG’S BIRMINGHAM NORTH BROMWICH – CITY OF IRON A thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSPHY (2007) I thought that this would make descriptive quote that could be included:

I was aware from the first of vivid contrasts between woods and fields and the monstrous intrusions of the machine: between native rustic and alien urban… Looking down from the Clents one could see an abrupt line of demarcation between the green and the black.

— Young, F.B. (May 1935) "The Secret History of a Novelist", p 134

-- PBS (talk) 01:50, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Client Hill or Adams Hill?[edit]

The Clent Hills are made up of two hills, Adams Hill and Walton Hill. The Wikipedia info is not correct when naming them as Clent Hill and Walton Hill. 2A00:23C4:5C89:6900:35D0:233D:E9D7:F6C4 (talk) 17:35, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As the article explains Adams Hill is not a separate hill, but the name for the hamlet (part of the parish of Clent) and the slope that form the south west flank of Clent Hill. There is a spur on Walton Hill on which the Parish Church is buit, it is known as Nag Hill (and another much longer spur called Calcot Hill). I am not sure why they are called hills, but Adams Hill is no more the name for Clent Hill than Nags Hill is for Walton Hill.
Here is a quote from the first reliable source I came across in Google Books for the names of the hills (but due to age, not the geology):

Not more than 10 miles to the east of Bewdley are situated the Clent Hills, distinguished by the names of the Proper Clent Hill, and Walton Hill. Hagley Park rises upon the north-western declivity of Clent Hill, the ridge of which is separated by a deep valley from Walton Hill. A branch of the latter ridge, named Calcut Hill, extends still further towards the S. E. in the direction of Bromsgrove Lickey. This cluster of hills is distinguished by its steep slopes, which give to it the characters of romantic beauty. ... The upper part of Clent Hill consists of a trap-rock, commonly so much decomposed as to form a complete covering of soil, .... Walton Hill consists of a porphyritic and sometimes amygdaloidal trap, very much decomposed. ... Calcut Hill, which is much lower than the others, is covered with beds of clay, sand, and gravel, and its whole surface is cultivated.

— James Yates 1827, p. 250
  • Yates, James (1827), "The Structure of the Border Country of Salop and North Wales; etc", Transactions of the Geological Society, vol. 2, part 2, Geological Society of London, p. 250
-- PBS (talk) 20:46, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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