The return leg from yesterday was, he tells us, 5 miles shorter, but he did take a different route, which explains a lot. If you like half-timbered houses then this days route is an absolute feast, and there is a feeling that in olden times, even up to the Industrial Revolution I should think, Shropshire was more heavily populated per square mile than many other northern Counties, due no doubt to the good growing qualities of Shropshire soil.