Tuesday 4 June 2019

The Highest Points in Shropshire - A List of the 10 Highest Shropshire Hills



This list of the Highest 10 Shropshire Hills provides a wonderful subject, on which to base this slideshow style video. A video which shows images which display the beautiful hills of South Shropshire. Most of these hills are within the Shropshire AONB - (Area of Natural Beauty).

Source: shropshirehillsaonb.co.uk

List of the 10 Highest Shropshire Hills

Some of he hills of Shropshire are fine summits and well known, others are more wild and seldom trodden.

See how many hills in this list you know about.

1 - Brown Clee – Abdon Burf 540m. Is the highest point in Shropshire.

2 - The Stiperstones 536m (Long Mynd). The highest point is Manstone Rock. Be sure also to watch out for the Devil’s Chair.

3 - Titterstone Clee 533m, SO591779. In the south-east of the county, provides many views including to the Malvern Hills and the Cotswolds.

4 - Long Mynd – Pole Bank 516m. Rises gently above the Long Mynd plateau.

5 - Clee Burf (Brown Clee) 510m. Slightly lower sister to the first in our list. This hill lies just to the south.

6 - Kerry Ridgeway 483m. One of the hilltops in the Clun Forest.

7 - Hoar Edge (Titterstone Clee) 478m. An outlier of Titterstone Clee close to the large Cleehill Quarry, with some interesting prehistoric cairns on its flat topped ridge.

8 - Yearlet 465m. A fine hill summit along the eastern edge of the Long Mynd.

9 - Caer Caradoc 459m. Above Church Stretton, Caradoc is one of the most beautiful of Shropshire’s Hills.

10 - Knolls (Long Mynd) 457m. Located in the southern part of the Long Mynd, it is well worth exploring.

We hope you enjoyed watching our list of the 10 Highest Shropshire Hills.

Find out more about walking the hills of the Logn Mynd around Church Stretton, at the Shropshire Hills website.

Don't forget. For those that pale at the thought of walking up hill. There is a solution. Take the Shropshire Hills Shuttlebus up to the top and walk back down to your car, or Church Stretton Station. The Shuttlebus runs all summer, at weekends.

Those are the highest Shropshire Hills, and include the highest point in Shropshire!

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Watch this on the YouTube website at:
https://youtu.be/zaLQV95N1Uk

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