Brown Clee Hill is the highest peak in Shropshire. It is 1772 feet high or 540metres at Abdon Burf where there is a toposcope signposting the landscape beyond.
If you travel eastwards from Brown Clee the next high ground you come to is the Urals.
Brown Clee is reached from Corvedale. And is well worth the walk to the top.
There have been three Iron Age Hill forts on Brown Clee. Two have largely been destroyed by quarrying at Abdon Burf and Clee Burf.
Nordy Bank Iron Age Hill Fort is largely intact. It is a singular bank design and covers about 7.9 acres. It is thought it was used as a stock enclosure and refuge.
Nordy Bank is a Scheduled Monument.
There is other evidence of earthworks that can be explored.
Brown Clee is five miles north of its twin Titterstone Clee Hill. Both Clee Hills have radar towers on the summit’s and air traffic control domes.
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