Sweeney Mountain in Shropshire is, at only 620 feet above sea level, not a mountain. However, a number of buildings taken back by nature are testament to the fact that when the weather's against one it can be cruel up here.
"Sweeney" may be a corruption of "swaney." The country house that is now the Sweeney Hall Hotel was, in an earlier incarnation, the property of one Thomas Baker, in 1649 granted a crest of arms featuring four swans' heads.
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