Two AQUEDUCTS in the Parish (one is just above The Croft Cottage in Cumberley Lane) carry the Birmingham water supply. Every day 85,000,000 gallons of water flow entirely by gravity the 76 miles from the Elan Valley in Wales to Birmingham, dropping only 52 feet in 76 miles.
Buzzards wheel overhead, long-tailed tits dart through the hedges. BADGER tracks can be seen in the lane banks and verges - the animals themselves can be viewed from our hide most summer evenings. Foxes are numerous enough to cause serious problems to flocks of poultry and young lambs in the parish. The native flowers include bluebells in the bluebell woods and white violets on the
lane sides in the Spring, common spotted orchids in our meadow, green-winged orchids on the nearby aqueduct in early summer and saffron (wild autumn crocus) in the fields in the autumn. There is mistletoe hanging in vast bunches from a variety of trees including apple and hawthorn.
On a clear day the views from the hill tops are magnificent you can see from the Malverns in the southeast to the Skirrid in the south to the Brecon Beacons in the southwest.
