The Jack Mytton Way

The unspoilt hillside hamlet of Meadowley, the proposed site of the Crida wind farm at Upton Cressett, is on a ridge of ancient landscape that is part of the Jack Mytton Way.

To propose building a wind farm that would be constructed directly on top of and across the Jack Mytton Way, Shropshire’s most famous ‘flagship’ bridle path, which is enjoyed by many riders, walkers and bicyclists each year, is wholly inappropriate and potentially hugely damaging to local tourism in the area. (Click here to view a PDF of the official guide for the Meadowley stretch of the trail).

As Shropshire County Council (SCC) says, the trail ‘travels through nearly 100 miles of Shropshire’s most beautiful and unspoilt countryside’. This is a uniquely unsuitable location for constructing and building high wind turbines.  

It is proposed that each towering turbine up to 100m high (which requires a concrete foundation pad the size of a large swimming pool) stand either side of a rough dirt road that is the Mytton Way at Meadowley (see map of the trail with turbines marked below). Riders, walkers and cyclists would have to pass directly between the oppressively moving giant steel structures that stand twice the height of the tallest aged oak tree and one and a half times the height of Nelson’s column.

It is quite apparent that these industrial turbines are totally at odds with Shropshire Council’s declaration that the historic trail ‘enables people to experience the more secret treasures of South Shropshire’s landscape’.

The Jack Mytton Way at Meadowley showing the proposed sites of the turbines.