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Recently, a project called Back to Purple has commenced, to clear some of the hill of remaining plantations of coniferous and wooded areas, restoring the land to heather based heath, seeing once again in season a glorious purple heather upland tract covering the summits around the tors and enhancing the views of the Stiperstones from the surrounding peaks and valleys.

It was built to carry lead ore from mines in the Stiperstones to Pontesbury where the ore was transshipped to the Great Western Railway's Minsterley branch line.

Other forests were Stiperstones, the jurisdiction of which was from time immemorial annexed to the Barony of Caus, Wyre, Shirlot, Clee, Long Forest and Brewood.

The lead mines of Shelve and Stiperstones were worked by the Romans, and in 1220 Robert Corbett conferred on Shrewsbury Abbey a tithe of his lead from the mine at Shelve.

East from Minsterley along the A488, is the larger village of Pontesbury and the hill range, the Stiperstones.

Views from the west of the hills spread as far as Snowdonia and Cadair Idris, the Brecon Beacons, the Black Mountains, The Long Mynd, Stiperstones Shropshire's third highest peak, Corndon Hill and Radnor Forest.

North, you can see as far as Cheshire ; West commands views over the Stiperstones, and the Welsh Cambrian Mountains in Powys, notably the Cambrian and Berwyn Mountains, and as far as Snowdonia on clear days.

The area around the Stiperstones is rich in myths and folklore relating to the rocks of the Devil's Chair.

D. H. Lawrence used the Stiperstones and the Devil's Chair in particular as a setting for his novel St Mawr ( 1925 ).

The Stiperstones are the second largest in the county, at, and are notable for their tors of quartzite ; particularly notable are Devil's Chair () and Shepherd's Rock ().

Stiperstones ' five-mile ( 8 km ) long summit ridge is crowned by several rugged, jagged outcrops of rock silhouetted against the sky.

Titterstone Clee is the third-highest hill in Shropshire, beaten only by the nearby Brown Clee Hill ( 540 m ) and Stiperstones ( 536 m ).

Shattered Cambrian quartzite at Stiperstones

In the United Kingdom, a craggy ridge of quartzite called the Stiperstones ( early Ordovician – Arenig Epoch, 500 Ma ) runs parallel with the Pontesford-Linley fault, 6 km north-west of the Long Mynd in south Shropshire.

The Long Mynd stands between the Stiperstones range to the west and the Stretton Hills and Wenlock Edge to the east.

The Stiperstones is a very distinctive hill in the county of Shropshire, England.

The Stiperstones is noted for its tors of quartzite.

The Stiperstones ridge is a good place to view the upland landscape of the Shropshire Hills, particularly the Long Mynd to the east, and also gives extensive views towards the North Shropshire plain and the hills of Mid Wales.

The small village of Stiperstones lies just under the ridge to the north-west ; it has a pub called the Stiperstones Inn.

The Stiperstones is a National Nature Reserve and in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

In 1845 he purchased the manor and estates of Ratlinghope, between the Long Mynd and the Stiperstones in Shropshire.

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Descriptive epithets are a common literary device in many parts of the world, whereas kennings in this restricted sense are a distinctive feature of Old Norse and, to a lesser extent, Old English poetry.

After Oxford, he found an entry-level job at The Times Literary Supplement, and at age 27 became literary editor of the New Statesman, where he met Christopher Hitchens, then a feature writer for The Observer, who remained a close friend until Hitchens's death in 2011.

Many art historians argue that there is not: " The best evidence, perhaps, that Giorgione's pictures were not particularly esoteric in their meaning is provided by the fact that while his stylistic innovations were widely adopted, the distinguishing feature of virtually all Venetian non-religious painting in the first half of the 16th century is the lack of learned or literary content ".

Until 1820 he resided in Copenhagen, in almost unceasing literary feud with some one or other, abusing and being abused ; the most important feature of the whole being Baggesen's determination not to allow Oehlenschläger to be considered a greater poet than himself.

On a formal level, the Bosnian language began to take a distinctive shape in the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ): lexically, Islamic-Oriental loan words are becoming more frequent ; phonetically: the phoneme / x / is reinstated in many words as a distinct feature of vernacular Bosniak speech and language tradition ; also, there are some changes in grammar, morphology and orthography that reflect the Bosniak pre-World War I literary tradition, mainly that of the Bosniak renaissance at the beginning of the 20th century.

The impulse to incorporate historical material into literary texts has been an intermittent feature of literature in the west since its earliest days.

Though, as Henley confessed, the paper had almost as many writers as readers, and its fame was confined mainly to the literary class, it was a lively and influential feature of the literary life of its time.

In addition to The Tale of the Heike and Chronicle of Yoshitsune ( Gikeiki ), which relates events of Yoshitsune's life after the defeat of the Heike, a great many other works of literature and drama feature him, and together form the sekai (" world ") of Yoshitsune, a concept akin to the notion of the literary cycle.

In 1970 Bowles and Daniel Halpern started the Tangier literary magazine Antaeus which was to feature many new authors, such as Lee Prosser, as well as more established authors such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his own work, such as " Afternoon with Antaeus ", some fragments of an unfinished novel by his wife Jane Bowles along with excerpts from " The Summer House ", and works by Daniel Halpern and others.

Many feature films tend to be adaptations of literary works.

The fourth and final feature she suggests is “ Fine writing: a literary prose style ”.

But as a literary device, metafiction has become a frequent feature of postmodernist literature.

A unique feature of this period is the emotional ( and sometimes active ) attachment of poets with national freedom struggle, their effort to understand and imbibe the vast spirit of a magnificent ancient culture and their towering genius which grossly overshadowed all the literary ' talked abouts ' of next seven decades.

The literary traditions of several other cultures also feature magical carpets, in most cases literally flying rather than instantly transporting their passengers from place to place. Another of Vasnetsov's renderings of the same subject.

Like the stories of P. G. Wodehouse, they are perfectly constructed and feature a brilliant literary craftsmanship that can easily escape notice.

In 1864 he was asked to undertake the Scottish editorship of the Sunday Magazine, and for this magazine much of his most characteristic literary work was done, especially in the editorial notes, then a new feature in magazine literature.

A number of other Martello towers are extant nearby at Bullock Harbour, Dalkey Island, Williamstown Seapoint and Sandymount and Martello towers feature in many literary works set in Dublin.

The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing has been awarded since 1979 for a distinguished example of feature writing giving prime consideration to high literary quality and originality.

They surviving in pictorial and in literary traditions and among the common people went underground to feature in folk culture, took on strange new guises and were transformed in various ways, their myths recast to suit some of the mythic saints of Late Antiquity.

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Stonyhurst has a number of literary associations: its setting has provided inspiration for poets and authors who include former classics teacher Gerard Manley Hopkins, whose poems feature details of the local countryside, and former pupil Sir Arthur Conan Doyle whose " Baskerville Hall " was modelled on Stonyhurst Hall, and who named Sherlock Holmes ' nemesis, Moriarty, after a fellow pupil.