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Devil's Chair 529.2m P9.7 Shropshire National Landscape Definitive List summit.

Be willing to climb to the trig point as it’s placed on top of the summit rock.

The Devil's Chair is a prominent rock formation located on the Stiperstones ridge in the Shropshire Hills. The ridge is part of the Stiperstones National Nature Reserve and is known for its jagged quartzite rocks, of which the Devil's Chair is the most famous. It stands at around 536 meters and offers sweeping views of the surrounding countryside, including the Welsh borderlands and the Shropshire plains.

Go up the lane past the steep access-path, go past a spring which crosses the stoney lane, arrive at a gate that gives easier access to the summit !! (Only discovered after having hauled my 78years up the previous path!!) Definitely going again! Offa*s Dyke path clearly visible over Long Mountain !! Peter P. from N/C u Lyme.

Super nice series of rocks that make for a good scrambling play area, or a rest stop. A very nice place with good views on a sky blue day.

Now on the common, as you climb the gentle slope up the ridge towards Stapeley hill, notice the ridge and furrow pattern of the ground underfoot. It is thought this is relatively modern. In the war years, to support the food effort, even the gentle slopes of some commons were ploughed to maximise agricultural output. Just beyond the first cairn lies the first of the features which is far older, a great example of a ring cairn. Common land, with its traditionally unploughed soils of permanent pasture, managed through long term commoning, have provided ideal conditions for the safeguarding of thousands of archaeological monuments. Some 11% of all scheduled monuments in England can be found on commons. These include Mesolithic flint workings, henges, stone circles, standing stones and stone rows, barrows, hillforts, dykes, settlements, roman camps and industrial and military relics. Stapeley can boast features across several of these categories.

Need good footwear. Difficult under foot as it's rocky.

One of the many little shark fin rocky outcrops on this lovely ridge. A good summer day walk.