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Looking south off Station Road through the entrance to the trading estate. Behind the village hall on the right was the terminus of the Cleobury Mortimer & Ditton Priors Light Railway and the trading estate occupies the goods yard. The 12-mile railway was opened in 1908 to transport dhustone from the Clee Hills quarries. By the Second World War, the stone supply was being worked out but the site was revived when the Naval Armament Depot was established here. The railway closed in 1960 and the Admiralty closed the depot in 1965. The site had a final brief revival in 1967-8 when the US Army was temporarily housed here following their forced evacuation from France.