[1] It overlooks the town of Church Stretton and the village of All Stretton and offers panoramic views to the north towards the Wrekin, east to Wenlock Edge, and west over the nearby Long Mynd.

It is not to be confused with another hillfort of the same name 1 km west of Chapel Lawn near Bucknell.

[2] Caer Caradoc rises sharply out of a narrow valley known as the Stretton Gap.

The Wrekin is a very similarly shaped hill and on the same alignment, some 10 miles (16 km) to the north-east.

Much of the hill is composed from volcanic rocks, like the Wrekin and other hills, formed of narrow ridges of resistant Precambrian rock thrust upwards by movements deep down along the Church Stretton Fault.