Talk:The Wrekin
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Can someone clarify which Beetham Tower you can see The Wrekin from? I'm guessing the one in Birmingham but the one in Manchester is the most eminent. 81.79.44.74 18:17, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
I guess this story has no place but I thought it might be of interest to Wrekin admirers:
My best friend here in Philadelphia always says, when she gets lost or takes a wrong turn, "We had to go round the reekin". She still says it today and occasionally her mother says it it too. They will even use the expression for simple things like going down the wrong aisle in a store; "Oh I couldn't find you. I had to go round the reekin...".
I asked where it came from and they had no idea; they just always used the expression in similar situations. So I was intrigued because I had never heard it before in the UK, or anywhere in the USA for that matter. Why would they be the only two people on earth to use what they thought to be a common expression? So I started searching the internet and tried every spelling; "round the reekin", "round the rekin", "reakin", "reekan" to no avail. It was a total mystery and yet I just couldn't imagine it was unique.
Then one day I posted the query on a forum about "idioms" and someone replied with the expression, "All around the Wrekin", and the story behind it. My friend must have picked it up from her mother, who must have picked it up from another family ancestor, who probably hailed from Shropshire! Fantastic! One of life's great mysteries solved! Thegallery 05:42, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
Could some knowledgeable individual please provide any information concerning the geology or provenance of this hill and surrounding area? The article currently (14mar2008) does not explicitly say if this is a natural outcrop, or a construct. Remains of a hillfort are mentioned, but what of the main body of the hill? Why does it project from the plain? The geology of the area is twice stated to be quite interesting, but never described to answer "why". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.37.58.220 (talk) 23:14, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Well it certainly isn't a 'man made' hill. Locally it's said to be an extinct volcano, but I don't know how true this is. 84.68.229.34 (talk) 17:02, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
