Titterstone Clee Hill is 1749feet high or 533metres.
It looks and is often thought to be the higher of the Clee Hills but is about thirty feet lower than Brown Clee.
If you are walking The Shropshire Way, it’s route takes you over Titterstone Clee to Brown Clee five miles to the north.
Titterstone Clee has one Iron Age Hill Fort at it’s summit. Unusually it has ramparts which were constructed from stone rather than earth banks, some of these have been damaged by subsequent quarrying. There is also the remains of a Bronze Age Cairn, with a trig point near to it.
The views across Shropshire and down into Ludlow are beautiful. You can see West into Wales and South towards the Malverns.
Mining has been on going on Titterstone Clee for a very long time. It has been quarried for dolerite, a hard dark stone, coal and ironstone. There is still quarrying on Titterstone Clee.
The route of a narrow gauge railway that used to serve the quarry can be seen as you explore. The remains of buildings, from which the wagons were filled on the railway, and generally served the mining activities can still be explored with care.
The villages of Dhustone, which you drive through to the car park is named after the stone being quarried out, was built to house the quarry workers. Dhustone was named after the the dark dolerite quarried from Titterstone Clee. Dhu in Welsh meaning black.
The summit of Titterstone Clee can be seen as it is approached by car, topped with air control domes and radar towers as is its twin hill Brown Clee.
Titterstone Clee is well worth an explore but take a coat, every time I have been there it is cold and windy.
The photograph of the summit of Titterstone Clee Hill used in the header of this blog post was taken by Philip Halling and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
The photograph of the Former Titterstone Hill Quarry was taken by Ian Capper and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
The photograph of the radomes on Titterstone Clee Hill was taken by Philip Halling and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
