Nordy Bank occupies a sloping ridge top site and its ramparts are up to three metres (10 feet) high.

It was built some time in the British Iron Age first millennium BC and gives a commanding view of the local countryside.

Quarrying dhustone was for long the main income of the area, and it was widely known as a dangerous and gruelling job, this dolerite being a very hard and challenging material to extract.

People would walk to the Abdon Quarry on Brown Clee Hill from as far as Bridgnorth and Ludlow, and often they would tend to at least one other job.

If the wind was coming down over the hill it was apparently possible to hear the stone crusher at the top crunching away, even down in Cleehill village.

Many of the men returned and worked at the naval ammunition depot set up at Ditton Priors at the start of World War II.

Simon Evans (1895-1940), the postman writer of Cleobury Mortimer, had his ashes scattered on Abdon Burf following his death.