Kinver Edge Rock Houses
The National Trust-owned beauty spot of Kinver Edge lies to the south-west of the village at at 52°26′59″N 2°14′31″W / 52.44985°N 2.24205°W / 52.44985; -2.24205. There are notable rock or cave houses on Kinver Edge, carved from the sandstone, some inhabited as late as the 1960s. Some of the rock houses have been restored to their former inhabited states.
Such rock houses were the setting of a silent film, Bladys of the Stewpony (1919, Sabine Baring-Gould), but most of this has since been lost. The "Stewponey" refers to an ancient inn (now demolished and replaced by flats) at Stourton in Kinver parish.
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