ice on the hills, when it comes it can be sudden and severe with very strong gales and blizzards often closing roads on the hill. The village of Cleehill, lies on the slopes of Titterstone Clee Hill, about half way between Ludlow and Cleobury Mortimer. The area is important for wildlife, with peregrine, kestrel, Northern wheatear, European stonechat, skylark, Eurasian curlew and barn owl often seen, as well as adders, rabbits, and other birds, including ravens. In late July and early August 2007, Catherton Common near Titterstone Clee was home to a very rare woodchat shrike. The hills in popular culture There is a long-standing rumour in the local area - that is that they are the highest land eastwards until the Ural Mountains in Russia. According to OpenCycleMap this appears to be true, with no land above 500m until the Urals. It has even been known for radios in the area to pick up Radio Moscow signals, hence the name of the former pub near Clee Hill village, The Kremlin Inn, which closed in 2015. The Clee hills are mentioned in A. E. Housman's poem "From Clee to heaven the beacon burns", which is a section of A Shropshire Lad. Titterstone Clee and Brown Clee also figure in Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael mystery, The Virgin in the Ice. The Clee Hills have given rise to many place names in the area, including the villages of Cleehill, Cleeton St Mary, Cleestanton and Cleedownton. Clee Hill features prominently on the Hereford Mappa Mundi. Terminology The Clee Hills often cause confusion amongst people through their names, but basically: The Clee Hills are the range of hills in southern Shropshire consisting of Brown Clee Hill and Titterstone Clee Hill. Cleehill is a small village on the southern slopes of Titterstone Clee Hill Titterstone Clee Hill is the smaller of the Clee Hills to the south of the range, heavily quarried. Brown Clee Hill is the larger of the hills to the north of the range. Clee Hill - rather confusingly there is actually no such thing as Clee Hill, and it is seen as either: A misspelled version of Cleehill, referring to the village, A local name for Titterstone Clee Hill A local name for the quarrying areas on Titterstone Clee Hill A local name for the area. External links BBC Shropshire photo gallery The Clee Hills Archaeology Project Archive from The University