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The Wrekin
The Wrekin is a hill in east Shropshire, England. It is located some five miles (eight kilometres) west of Telford, on the border between the districts of Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin. Rising to a height of 1,335 feet (407 metres) above the Shropshire Plain, it is a prominent and well-known landmark, signalling the entrance to Shropshire for travellers westbound on the M54 motorway.〔 The Wrekin is contained within the northern panhandle of the Shropshire Hills AONB. The hill is popular with walkers and tourists and offers good views of Shropshire. It can be seen well into Staffordshire and the Black Country, and even as far as the Beetham Tower in Manchester, Winter Hill in Lancashire and Cleeve Hill in Gloucestershire.
==Name==
The earliest mention of ''the Wrekin'' (pronounced locally as REE-KIN) occurs in a charter of 855, as entered in a late eleventh century Worcester cartulary, spelled ''Wreocensetun''. Its modern form is believed to have come into modern English by way of Mercian, and that is likely to have been taken from the early Celtic word ''Wrikon''.〔''Y Cymmrodor'' Volume 21, p 29,p 59 (1908)〕 It is presumed to be etymologically related to the Latin name for the town of ''Viroconium Cornoviorum'' (modern Wroxeter; the Cornovii were the Brittonic tribe inhabiting the area), related to similar sounding names such as ''Wrexham'' (a charter of 1236 refers to this place as ''Wrectesham'') which was also been part of the northwestern edge of the Cornovii Kingdom.〔
The minor Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the Wreocensæte existed in the area prior to Mercian reign. For several centuries the hill was known as Mount Gilbert, a name given to it by the Normans after a hermit who lived there.
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