Hagley Obelisk seen from Leasowes Park by ell brown
A look around <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leasowes" rel="nofollow">Leasowes Park</a> in Halesowen.
<b><a href="http://www.dudley.gov.uk/resident/environment/countryside/nature-reserves/leasowes-park-/" rel="nofollow">The Leasowes</a></b>
The Leasowes is a historic landscape, listed as Grade 1 on the English Heritage list of parks and Gardens of historic interest in England.
The site was designed by the poet William Shenstone between 1743 and 1763. As such it is one of the most important and influential landscapes of the 18th Century and is considered to be one of the first natural landscape gardens in England.
Today, the Leasowes is of major historic significance, ranking in importance with such landscapes as Blenheim and Stowe. It is the diverse landscape of wooded valleys, open grasslands, lakes and streams created by Shenstone that makes the site so important for wildlife. The site has been managed with nature in mind since the mid 18th Century and as such provides a wealth of different habitats for birds, mammals, invertebrates and locally uncommon plant species.
Seen beyond Halesowen Town Centre from Leasowes Park is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wychbury_Obelisk" rel="nofollow">Hagley Obelisk</a>. It's near Wychbury Hill in Hagley, Worcestershire.
The Hagley Obelisk (also known as the Wychbury Obelisk and locally as Wychbury Monument) in Hagley Park stands close to the summit of Wychbury Hill in Hagley, Worcestershire, and is only about 150 metres from the border of the West Midlands. It is a Grade II* listed building. It is 84 feet (26 m) high, and can be seen for many miles around, as far as Shropshire, and the hill if not the monument on its summit from the Malverns.
Grade II* listed
<a href="https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101167587-obelisk-about-34-mile-north-of-hagley-hall-hagley#.WocXZufLiUk" rel="nofollow">Obelisk About 3/4 Mile North of Hagley Hall</a>
Listing Text
SO 98 SW HAGLEY WYCHBURY HILL
2/133 Obelisk about ¾ mile north of
Hagley Hall (formerly listed with
item 2/134)
II
The grade shall be amended to read Grade II*
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SO 28 SW HAGLEY CP WYCHBURY HILL
2/133 Obelisk about ¾ mile
north of Hagley Hall
23.4.52 1 (Formerly listed with
item 2/134)
II
Obelisk. Mid-C18, for George, First Lord Lyttleton. Sandstone ashlar on
ashlar-faced brick base. Square pedestal with moulded base and cornice
supporting tall tapered slender shaft with moulded plinth; the upper section
of the shaft is missing. One of several buildings erected in the park for
George Lyttleton as part of his scheme to landscape the grounds in the new
Picturesque style. The obelisk, erected on a very prominent site, has become
a local landmark. [CL articles (mainly Vol 122, p 545 and 608); VCH 3 (i),
p 130-131; BoE, p 178; Hagley Hall Official Guide Book).
Listing NGR: SO9210181646
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
Wychbury Obelisk is a tourist attraction, one of the Military memorials and cemeteries in Hagley, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo. It is located: 9.4 km from Stourbridge, 48 km from Birmingham, 520 km from London. Read further