Titterstone Clee
Titterstone Clee, is the most prominent hill on the South Shropshire skyline. It's summit can be seen from up to 70 miles away, and from the top on a clear day, you can see forever.
It is the only named Hill on the famous 14thC Mappa Mundi, which implies its significance in ages past. The enclosure on the top is the biggest in Shropshire and could possibly have been started in the Bronze Age, as there are Cairns dating from that period up there.
In the past 200 or so years, Titterstone has been quarried for Dhustone on a massive scale, but this does not detract from its mythological wonder. The most famous story about this fabulous hill, is recorded as just a fragment of myth in Charlotte S Burne's "Shropshire Folklore - A Sheaf of Gleanings" She writes...
”some such legends.(of Giants)..must once have been told of the Giant’s Chair on the Titterstone Clee, but they are now, it is to be feared, entirely forgotten, though the tradition still obtains that there was a battle of the giants on the Titterstone, and that the loose stones about its summit are their missiles still lying scattered there”
The Battle of The Giants is one of the stories we have taken the threads of and woven them together to tell to those who want to listen, but there are many other tales hidden among the gorse and heather, whispering around the walls of the enclosure, or even echoing around the quarries, all waiting to be heard, gathered and told.