Just under a million visitors a year are estimated to come to the hills,[4] making them Worcestershire's most popular non-paying attraction.

Alongside the spur is another deep V-shaped valley which was also dammed at frequent intervals to provide power to its mills.

This stream flows on to the village of Belbroughton in which the Nash Crown Scythe Works used the water to power its machinery.

The National Trust land on the hills encompass 440 acres (180 ha) of woodland (both natural deciduous and coniferous forest plantations) and heathland, important for wildlife including fallow deer and common buzzard, plus visiting ring ouzel and common crossbill.

According to local historian John Amphlett, a battle between ancient Britons and Romans was fought on Clent Heath.

Both the Conservators and Management Committee were largely funded by contributions from neighbouring local authorities, particularly in the Black Country.

In 1974, the hills became a country park, managed by Hereford & Worcester County Council under the Countryside Act 1968.

[citation needed] In 1588 a beacon was placed on the Bicknall as part of the chain set up to warn of the approach of the Spanish Armada.

[17] For Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee A. E. Housman watched the beacons from summit of Walton Hill.

He wrote in a letter to his mother that at 10 o'clock the night of 22 June 1897 (the hour designated for the event) he could see 52 just to the south and west.

By 2 o'clock, Housman wrote that in the distance two could still be seen still burning somewhere near the Brown Clee, and three nearer, one towards Droitwich, one on Kinver Edge (it continued to burnt brightly until dawn), and the Clent Hill beacon which was not near the summit but on the south west face.

On a clear day observers can see as far as the Black Mountains of Wales, the northern Cotswolds, the southern Peak District and Charnwood Forest.

Landmarks visible from the hills include Dudley Castle, the large Droitwich AM transmitters near Bromsgrove, the large silos (now demolished for housing) on the Ex British Sugar Corporation land in Kidderminster, Ironbridge Power Station (now decommissioned and demolished), near Telford and the nearby Wychbury Obelisk.

A popular means of access to Clent Hill is from Nimmings car park, off Hagley Wood Lane.

… The view of wide range of hills is impressive.The poet William Shenstone lived at The Leasowes and was a near neighbour of the Lyttelton family at Hagley Hall.

Coming out into the court before the house, he mentioned Clent and Waw-ton Hill as the two bubbies of Nature: then Mr L. observed the nipple, and then Thomson the fringe of Uphmore wood; till the double entendre was work'd up to a point, and produced a laugh.

[23]In June 2012 poet and writer Helen Calcutt was appointed the first writer-in-residence of the Clent Hills, in association with The National Trust volunteer team.