Much of the higher part of the hill is common land, used for the grazing of sheep, air traffic control services and both working and disused quarries.

Most of the summit of the hill is affected by man-made activity, the result of hill fort construction during the Bronze and Iron Ages and, more recently, by years of mining for coal and quarrying for dolerite, known locally as 'dhustone', initially for shaped setts for road paving and lining excavations (notably the new docks at Newport, South Wales) but later for aggregate in concrete and for road paving.

Many derelict quarry buildings scattered over the hill are of industrial archaeological interest as very early examples of the use of reinforced concrete.

The uppermost part of this succession is the St Maughans Formation and on the northern and western sides it rises almost to the summit where it is then capped by the relatively resistant dolerite sill and its strong hornfels contact metamorphic zone.

Overlying this is the Cornbrook Sandstone Formation, the local representative of the Millstone Grit underlying the ground between Cleehill village and Knowle and also to the northeast of the hill.

This is succeeded by the mudstones, siltstones and sandstones of the Lower and Middle Coal Measures which makes up much of the rest of the surface of the hill extending southwest to Knowbury and northeast beneath Catherton Common.

An old 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway incline is still visible on the hill and a large concrete structure under which the wagons were filled with stone still remains next to the modern day car park.

Nearby, on the flanks of Clee Hill, a standard gauge railway incline provided means of exporting quarried stone from above Cleehill village.

The footings for the tall pylons which supported the wires still remain near the summit, parallel to the modern day track to the radar domes.

The smaller of the two is a Met Office weather radar station which is part of a network of 16 across the country used to detect cloud precipitation (rain).

There is in addition a dense network of footpaths and bridleways running both across the unenclosed land and also the enclosed farmland surrounding the hill.

Some connect from the A4117 Cleobury Mortimer to Ludlow road which runs east–west across Clee Hill Common's southern flanks (reaching a height of 1,250 feet (380 m) above sea level at its highest point) though a minor public road reaches to the upper parts of the hill where there are parking areas.

From the summit the Shropshire Way runs north to Brown Clee Hill, southwest to Ludlow and east to Cleobury Mortimer.