Shropshire landscape: Dramatic silhouette of The Stiperstones with the sun producing a starburst effect as it rises above the rocks.

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The Stiperstones is a very distinctive hill in the county of Shropshire, England. It is a quartzite ridge formed some 480 Million years ago. During the last Ice Age the summit stood out above the glaciers and was subject to constant freezing and thawing which shattered the quartzite into a mass of jumbled scree surrounding several residual rocky tors. At 536 metres above sea level it is the second highest hill in the county, surpassed only by Brown Clee Hill (546 m). Stiperstones' five-mile (8 km) long summit ridge is crowned by several rugged, jagged outcrops of rock silhouetted against the sky

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Size: 5200px × 3467px
Location: Stiperstones, Shropshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Richard Franklin / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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