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The
Wrekin
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According to folk tales there was once a cobbler returning to his home after collecting shoes
for mending from Shrewsbury, a nearby town on the river Severn. On the way he met a giant
carrying an enormous load of earth with which he said he was going to dam the Severn and so
flood Shrewsbury. The cobbler, a resourceful man, said, "You have a long journey in front of
you, then. The distance between here and Shrewsbury is so great that I have worn out all these
shoes doing the journey", and he emptied his large sack of broken shoes in front of the giant as
proof. In exasperation the giant, already weary of his load, dumped it and returned the way he
had come.
This huge pile of soil now forms the Wrekin, a hill which is a well-known land mark in the
neighbourhood of Shrewsbury.
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