Brown Clee Hill
3 classifications here — Current County/UA Top, Marilyn and HuMP — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 540.5 m · 1,773 ft
- Prominence
- 374.6 m
- Grid reference
- SO 59375 86706
- Coordinates
- 52.47673, -2.59958
- County / area
- Shropshire
- Region
- Shropshire
- OS Landranger
- 137 138
- OS Explorer
- 217
- Summit feature
- heathery mound near masts
- Key col
- SO 6103 9466 (165.9 m)
About Brown Clee Hill
At 540 metres, Brown Clee Hill is the highest ground in Shropshire. It belongs to the group known as the Clee Hills and lies within the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. As well as the historic and current county top, it is listed as a Marilyn and a HuMP.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Brown Clee Hill (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
Access rights here
Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.
Permission needed Wild camping: Needs the landowner's permission — the Dartmoor commons are the only exception in England.
General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England · check another location.
Daylight at this summit today
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Computed astronomically for 52.477, -2.600. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
150m N of view indicator (SO 59365 86555) and 0.9m higher.
The recorded summit point is heathery mound near masts. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Abney level
- Record revised
- 21-Jul-24
- Drop measured from
- SO 6103 9466 · 165.9 m
Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.