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	Brown Clee Hill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brown Clee Hill is a hill in the rural English county of Shropshire.
		It is one of the Clee Hills, and is in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
		Brown Clee lies a few miles north of its neighbour, Titterstone Clee Hill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brown_Clee_Hill (193 words)

	Clee Hills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Clee Hills are a range of hills in Shropshire, England, consisting of Brown Clee Hill (540m), the highest peak in Shropshire, and Titterstone Clee Hill (533m).
		The hills mark a clear eastern boundary to the Shropshire Hills, and are just west of the Severn Valley between Bridgnorth and Bewdley.
		The hills seem to form a "gateway" from the built up areas of the West Midlands to the hills and rural landscape of Wales and are at the heart of the Welsh Marches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clee_Hill (453 words)

	Encyclopedia: Brown Clee Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The ores of iron are peroxides in sandstone, argillaceous carbonates in shale, and sulphurets in coal.
		Brown Clee Hill and Titterstone Clee Hill, a few miles S. of Coalbrookdale, have their summits covered with overlying masses of granite, but coal is worked midway from the base.
		The Billingsley tract, to the E. of the Clee hills, stretches from Dense Hill on the N. to the borders of Shropshire and Worcestershire, a distance of 8 miles, but it is doubtful whether this is one continuous field, or consists of several smaller ones adjacent to each other.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Brown-Clee-Hill (1055 words)

	Encyclopedia: Titterstone Clee Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Titterstone Clee Hill is a hill in the rural English county of Shropshire, rising at the summit to 533 metres above sea level.
		Titterstone Clee Hill from Ludlow Castle The Clee Hills are a range of hills in Shropshire, England, consisting of Brown Clee Hill (540m), the highest peak in Shropshire, and Titterstone Clee Hill (533m).
		Titterstone Clee is the third-highest hill in Shropshire, beaten only by the nearby Brown Clee Hill (540 metres) and Stiperstones (536 metres).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Titterstone-Clee-Hill (1195 words)

	Ditton Priors \| British History Online
		49) The Brown Clee commons were divided probably in the earlier 17th century, and the boundary of Ditton's allotment later became that of the parish.
		The hill is composed largely of Breconian Beds folded in a syncline with thin sheets of Coal Measures, capped overall by hard olivine dolerite.
		It is thought that Clee hill gained the description Brown (from the local soil colour) in the 15th century to distinguish it from Titterstone Clee 10 km.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22878 (13835 words)

	Shropshire Hills AONB - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Shropshire Hills area is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
		It is in England, close to the border with Wales.
		Brown Clee Hill - near to Ludlow, tallest hill in Shropshire at 540m
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shropshire_Hills_AONB (286 words)

	BBC - Shropshire - History - Picture Gallery - Shropshire's hill forts from the air
		It's the last survivor of three hill forts which once occupied Brown Clee and there are several unexplained platforms or building foundations within its enclosures.
		One of which, a small enclosure in the south west corner, may actually be the location of a World War II guard post.
		The other two Brown Clee hill forts have been lost to quarrying.
	www.bbc.co.uk /shropshire/history/2004/01/gallery_hill_forts_06.shtml (113 words)

	Shropshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blists Hill museum and historical (Victorian era) village is a major tourist attraction as well as the Iron Bridge itself.
		Nearby are the old mining communities on the Clee Hills, notable geological features in the Onny Valley and Wenlock Edge and fertile farmland in the Corve Dale.
		Titterstone Clee Hill, (hill near Ludlow, ex-coalmining and famed for the unusual accent of the locals)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shropshire (1872 words)

	Brown Clee Hill - a Shropshire Walk - Walking Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Twin topped Brown Clee Hill is the highest of all the Shropshire hills yet nowhere near as popular the Long Mynd and other hills in this beautiful County.
		To visit the summit of Brown Clee Hill, go straight ahead on a path up through hummocky ground to reach the OS trig point.
		Just north of the masts a track leads down to a good path descending Clee Liberty to the impressive fort at Nordy Bank and onward down to a minor road at Cockshutford (Grid ref. SO 574 849).
	www.walkingbritain.co.uk /walks/walksv2/vw133.shtml (393 words)

	Shropshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gough supposes it to have been at the hill called Caer Caradoc, or the Gaer, near the junction of the small rivers Clun and Temd, on the point of which are the remains of a very large and strongly fortified camp.
		To the south-west the hills are more frequent; and on the western and south-western borders of the county is a striking succession of mountainous elevations, divided by beautiful vallies: some of the highest ground in the county is considered to be the summits of the hills in the vicinity of Oswestry.
		Upon the hills nearer Wales the flocks are without horns and with white faces; have rather shorter legs and heavier and coarser fleeces than the Longmynd sheep, and are of about the same weight.
	privatewww.essex.ac.uk /~alan/family/C-SAL.html (5398 words)

	MyAncestry.org
		Upper Town is on the summit of a hill on the west bank of the Severn.
		Chetton is a village on a spur of Brown Clee Hill.
		It is on the western slope of Brown Clee Hill.
	myancestry.org /places/shropshire.htm (2090 words)

	Walk #177: Bridgnorth to Broadstone
		The summit of Crown Clee Hill is now covered with ariels, but was once covered by Abdon Burf, which was an oval enclosure encompassing somewhere between 20 and 30 acres, with walls 65 feet wide at their base.
		P1190416 One of the telecommunication ariels on the summit of Brown Clee Hill.
		P1190417 The lake at the summit of Brown Clee Hill.
	www.britishwalks.org /walks/2002/177.php (2139 words)

	Shropshire
		Brown Clee is the highest point in Shropshire.
		The hill was a much used refuge in the Iron Age and there are two more hill-forts - one on Clee Burf summit, the other on Nordybank, the western flank of the hill.
		The Brown Clee Forest Trail - a 1.5 mile circular route - starts beside a picnic area on a minor road about a mile west of Cleobury North village.
	www.westair-reproductions.com /mappage/shropshi.htm (1858 words)

	GENUKI: Shropshire, England - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868
		The highest points are Brown Clee Hill, 1,805 feet above the sea-level, and Titterstone Clee Hill, 1,750 feet; W. of the Clee hills is the mountainous district called Clun Forest, formerly a wooded tract, but now well cultivated and divided into small freehold properties.
		The northern limit of the older formation is the coalfield of Coalbrookdale, and on the E. it extends to the Wyre, or Bewdley coal district which passes into the adjoining county of Worcester.
		The Ludlow hills belong to the Silurian system, and rise from the Old Red sandstone at Corvedale to elevations of 1,000 to 1,100 feet, and from these to Coalbrookdale extends an unbroken escarpment called Wenlock Edge, consisting of Wenlock limestone.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/SAL/Gaz1868.html (2324 words)

	Blackford on Brown Clee Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Blackford is a group of two or three houses on the south side of Brown Clee hill.
		The road makes a sharp turn in the base of the valley where a stream is shown to cross the road, but in August 2000 there was no sign of the bridge under the road.
		The picture shows the road going down the hill and turning sharply left at the lowest point, to run along in front of the houses.
	www.cs.bham.ac.uk /~slb/fords/Blackfordb.htm (101 words)

	Brown Clee Hill WB-002
		Navigating around the little windy lines from Titterstone Clee Hill G/WB-004 was difficult, but frequent comparison of junction roadsigns with the road atlas on the Explorer 1:25000 sheet brought us to the start point without a wrong turning.
		Where the hill begins to round off, we turned left (NE) and walked the gentler gradient to the trig point of Brown Clee Hill.
		The summit was then qualified with ease courtesy of Ian G7ADF/M on Winter Hill (but not for SOTA), GW4BVE/P and 2W0UPT/P on Foel Fenlli GW/NW-051 and a quick natter with Brian G8ADD.
	www.qsl.net /m1eyp/brown.htm (507 words)

	Guardian \| Country diary
		We climbed from Clee St Margaret, up beside the bracken-covered ramparts of Nordybank hill fort, and mounted the broad top of Clee Burf, south top of Brown Clee Hill.
		At the shallow col, the five springs were gushing down the hillside towards Clee St Margaret, and on, by Pye Brook, to unite with the Corve at Culmington.
		Those Burwarton woods swing right around the northeastern flank of Brown Clee, up to the 1,500ft contour, old mixed plantings that make beautiful what would otherwise be unproductive slopes rising from Ditton Priors and Cleobury North.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4651400-103500,00.html (340 words)

	GENUKI: Clee St Margaret, Shropshire
		"CLEE, a parish in the lower division of the hundred of Munslow, in the county of Salop, 7 miles N.E. of Ludlow, its post town.
		It is situated under Brown Clee Hill and on Clee Brook.
		A transcription of Clee St Margaret Parish Register is no longer available in its original location, but archived versions exist - thanks to the Wayback Machine - see Archived Clee St Margaret Parish Register 1634-1812, and click on one of the listed dates.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/SAL/CleeStMargaret (250 words)

	Guardian \| The view from here
		On the icy crest of our hill, close to the 1,800ft contour, we gazed over the Wenlock spine to the shapely lift of Caer Caradoc, king of the Church Stretton hills.
		The elevated mile and a half that is the summit ridge of Brown Clee Hill starts with tiresome heather tussocks upon old quarry workings and soon evolves to rush beds running with water.
		This particular Liberty was given to the local population by the Lord of the Manor in 1947.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5100187-103500,00.html (286 words)

	Brown Clee Hill 1,771' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Abdon Burf, the north top of Brown Clee Hill, is the highest point in Shropshire.
		The hill is clearly in view from many places in the south of the county, with its twin tops best seen from the west.
		Brown Clee Hill seen above Wenlock edge from Ragleth Hill east of Church Stretton.
	home.clara.net /tobydog/38abrown.htm (162 words)

	South Yorkshire Orienteers - SYO News Volume 22 No 1 January 2001
		Brown Clee Hill is a great orienteering area and a good warm up for the bigger events of the year.
		Brown Clee is a fair distance from Sheffield (2.5 hour drive?), but is worth the effort.
		Crossing the hill I found a lovely re-entrant A which I mistook for B and deduced that the knoll beyond must be the control.
	www.thateden.co.uk /syo/syonews/syonews12.php (2956 words)

	Appendix One: Details of the sixty-three sites visited.
		Hubert Cangefot was known to be connected with the nearby Clee St Margaret in 1199 and it seem likely that the Cangefot family gave their name to the settlement at Hopton.
		Redford is a farm in the hills north of Burford, situated in the valley of a small stream which runs south to join the River Teme at Monks bridge on the Shropshire-Herefordshire border.
		It lies opposite a low hill called "Ford Hill" (shown on 6" Ordnance Survey Map of 1901) and is in a part of the river Severn which is very wide and shallow in the summer.
	www.suelaflin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /MAThesis/MA08.html (7325 words)

	Shropshire Article, Shropshire Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shrewsbury is a large market town in the centre of the county, and hastraditionally been regarded with suspicion, often hostility, by the rest of the county, particularly by the inhabitants of thevery rural South West (although since the 1960s, that hostility has been diverted toward Telford).
		Telford and the Wrekin Unitary Authority is in the east of the county, and is its industrial core.Telford's rapid expansion has changed the character of the region dramatically since the 1960s.
		Clee Hill, (hill near(ish) Ludlow, ex-coalmining and famed for the unusual accent of the locals)
	www.anoca.org /county/area/shropshire.html (885 words)

	BeenThere-DoneThat: Views from Titterstone Clee Hill, Ludlow, Shropshire.
		This hill is about 5 miles, as the crow flies, to the north-east of Ludlow and is a little over 1700 feet high.
		Immediately north of Titterstone Clee Hill is it's companion Brown Clee Hill which is slightly higher at 1800 feet.
		The rest of the hill is made of Devonian Old Red Sandstone overlain by Carboniferous sandstone and limestone.
	www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk /shropshire/ludlow5.html (235 words)

	The English Marilyns- Region 38
		At the south-west corner of this hill is a tiny area which, according to the map, is crossed by a maze of footpaths but closer acquaintance found very little evidence of them on the ground.
		Corndon hill, quite close but actually in another country, was the most conspicuous hill in the view; one which we had climbed before we ever found it in any tables.
		Hedgon Hill is a newcomer to the tables, replacing Grendon Green which was listed in the book and is the top of an enormous expanse of rolling agricultural land with a trig point which lies very close to the A44.
	www.keswick.u-net.com /maryl38.htm (3244 words)

	SHROPSHIRE (SALOP) - Online Information article about SHROPSHIRE (SALOP)
		Severn and partly in Montgomeryshire, the Breidden Hills rise abruptly in three peaks; and in the south-west there is a broad range of rough rounded hills known as Clun See also:
		licence was granted to dig coal in the Clee Hills, and in 1291 the abbot of Wigmore received the profits of a coal-mine at Caynham.
		Iron was dug in the Clee Hills and at Wombridge in the 16th century.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SHROPSHIRE_SALOP_.html (4862 words)

	Walking in Shropshire
		There is more stunning countryside to enjoy – the tumbled country of the Teme Valley, the outlying hills rising up from the farmland of north Shropshire, with its quiet canals and meres, the abrupt edge of the Welsh hill country to the west, the remote upland of Clun Forest.
		The lovely rolling south Shropshire countryside rises up to Brown Clee Hill, the highest point in the county at 540 metres (1,772 feet) and is crowned by the ancient hill fort of Abdon Burf.
		An area of rolling hills and quiet villages in south west Shropshire, centering on the ancient medieval town of Clun in the heart of the Welsh Marches.
	www.shropshireramblers.org.uk /walking.htm (1470 words)

	Walk #178: Broadstone to Church Stretton
		The previous day I had seen a sign in the forest on the climb up to the summit of Brown Clee Hill saying that a car rally was going to come through the next day.
		At first I thought that it was paved, but a closer inspection showed the base of the track to be on a rocky surface that was inclined at the same angle as the hill, so large flat surfaces were visible.
		The bridleway emerges onto a road at the bottom of the hill beside Eaton Church.
	www.britishwalks.org /walks/2002/178.php (1746 words)

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