List of hill forts in England
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There are over 1,350 known hill fort
Hill fort
A hill fort is a type of earthworks used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. They are typically European and of the Bronze and Iron Ages. Some were used in the post-Roman period...

s in England and Wales. Given the effects of erosion, some smaller sites have been destroyed and the actual number of hill forts constructed was probably higher, possibly around 1,600. England's hill forts are concentrated in the south and west, with especially high numbers in the south-western peninsula
Peninsula
A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland. In many Germanic and Celtic languages and also in Baltic, Slavic and Hungarian, peninsulas are called "half-islands"....

 (Devon
Devon
Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...

 and Cornwall
Cornwall
Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

 have a total of 285 hill forts). There are also 570 hill forts in Wales, and some in Scotland. Although some originate in the Bronze Age
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age...

, the majority of hill forts in Britain were constructed during the Iron Age
British Iron Age
The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron-Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, and which had an independent Iron Age culture of...

 (about 8th century BC to the Roman conquest of Britain
Roman conquest of Britain
The Roman conquest of Britain was a gradual process, beginning effectively in AD 43 under Emperor Claudius, whose general Aulus Plautius served as first governor of Britannia. Great Britain had already frequently been the target of invasions, planned and actual, by forces of the Roman Republic and...

). There was a trend in the 2nd century BC for hill forts to fall out of use.
Bedfordshire Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cleveland Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Greater Manchester Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland North Yorkshire Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire Somerset South Yorkshire Staffordshire Surrey West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire
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Bedfordshire

  • Billington Camp
  • Caesar's Camp, Sandy
    Sandy, Bedfordshire
    Sandy is a small market town and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. It is between Cambridge and Bedford, and on the A1 road from London to Edinburgh. The area is dominated by a range of hills known as the Sand Hills. The River Ivel runs through Sandy. The dedication of the Anglican church is to...

    , Conger Hill
  • Galley Hill
  • Maiden Bower
    Houghton Regis
    Houghton Regis is a town and civil parish sandwiched between the major towns of Luton to the east and Dunstable to the west. The parish includes the ancient hamlets of Bidwell, Thorn and Sewell...

    , Mowsbury Hill
  • Sharpenhoe Clappers
    Barton-le-Clay
    Barton-le-Clay is a large village and a civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England. The village has existed since at least 1066 and is mentioned in the Domesday Book...


Berkshire

  • Borough Hill, Bussock Camp
    Bussock Camp
    Bussock Camp is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hillfort located in Berkshire. It has a double bank and ditch to the south and east, with only a single bank remaining the north and western sides...

    ,
  • Caesar's Camp
    Caesar's camp
    Caesar's Camp is an Iron Age hill fort thought to be around 2600 years old. It is located just in Crowthorne civil parish , to the south of Bracknell in the English county of Berkshire.-Description:...

    ,
  • Grimsbury Castle
    Grimsbury Castle
    Grimsbury Castle is an Iron Age "multiple enclosure" Hill Fort comprising a large circular encampment situated on a high hill. It is situated within Grimsbury Wood to the between Cold Ash and Hermitage, in the county of Berkshire- History :...

    ,
  • Membury Camp
    Membury Camp
    Membury Camp, or Membury Fort, is the site of an Iron Age hillfort located on the borders of Wiltshire and Berkshire, . The site encompasses 14 hectares, and is situated in the south-western corner of a small plateau...

  • Perborough Castle
    Perborough Castle
    Perborough Castle is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located at Compton in Berkshire. The site covers approximately , and lies on the chalky downs of West Berkshire...

    , Walbury Hill
    Walbury Hill
    Walbury Hill is the highest point in the traditional county of Berkshire in the UK at above sea level. It is also the highest point in the South East of England, West Berkshire being a constituent part of the South East of England...

  • Ramsbury
    Ramsbury
    Ramsbury is a village in Ramsbury and Axford civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. The village is in the Kennet Valley near the Berkshire boundary. The nearest towns are Hungerford about east and Marlborough about west. The much larger town of Swindon is about to the north.The civil...


Bristol

  • Aldebury
  • Blaise Castle
    Blaise Castle
    Blaise Castle is an 18th century mansion house and estate near Henbury in Bristol , England. Blaise Castle was immortalised by being described as "the finest place in England" in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey....

    ,
  • Clifton Down Promontory Fort
    Clifton Down
    Clifton Down is an area of public open space in Bristol, England, north of the village of Clifton. With its neighbour Durdham Down to the northeast, it constitutes the large area known as The Downs, much used for leisure including walking and team sports...

    ,
  • Kingsweston Hill
    Kingsweston Hill
    Kingsweston Hill is the site of an Iron Age hill fort near Henbury, Bristol, England.It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.It is near Kings Weston House and also the site of a tower for television broadcasting....


Buckinghamshire

  • Aylesbury
    Aylesbury
    Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire in South East England. However the town also falls into a geographical region known as the South Midlands an area that ecompasses the north of the South East, and the southern extremities of the East Midlands...

    , Boddington Camp
    Wendover
    Wendover is a market town that sits at the foot of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England. It is also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district...

    , Bulstrode Park Camp
  • Cheddington
    Cheddington
    Cheddington is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire. The parish has an area of . The village is about 5 miles north-east of Aylesbury and three miles north of Tring in Hertfordshire...

    , Cholesbury Camp
    Cholesbury Camp
    Cholesbury Camp is a large and well-preserved Iron Age hill fort on the northern edge of the village of Cholesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. It is roughly oval-shaped, covers an area of , and measures approximately north-east to south-west by north-west to south-east. The interior is a fairly...

    , Church Hill, West Wycombe
  • Danesborough Camp
    Woburn Sands
    Woburn Sands is a small town and civil parish that is mainly located in the Borough of Milton Keynes, England, and to the south-east of Milton Keynes itself, near Wavendon...

    , Desborough Castle
    Desborough Castle
    Desborough Castle is an Iron Age hill fort which lies on the southern side of the valley of the River Wye in Buckinghamshire, which runs through the Chiltern Hills from the Ridgeway and Vale of Aylesbury to the river Thames.-Details:...

    ,
  • Gerrards Cross
    Gerrards Cross
    Gerrards Cross is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the south of the county, near the border with Greater London, south of Chalfont St Peter. Gerrards Cross is also a civil parish within South Bucks district, which was known as the Beaconsfield district from 1974 to 1980...

    ,
  • Ivinghoe
    Ivinghoe
    Ivinghoe is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England, close to the border with Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. It is four miles north of Tring and six miles south of Leighton Buzzard, close to the village of Pitstone.The village name is Anglo-Saxon in...

    ,
  • Keep hill, Kimbles
    Kimbles
    Great and Little Kimble is a civil parish in Wycombe district, Buckinghamshire, sitting at the foot of the Chiltern Hills. It is located to the south of Aylesbury. It incorporates the villages of Great Kimble, Little Kimble, Kimble Wick and Marsh and the hamlet of Smoky Row.There are two main...

    ,
  • Maid's Moreton, Medmenham Camp
    Medmenham
    Medmenham is a village and civil parish in the Wycombe district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the River Thames, about three and a half miles southwest of Marlow and three miles east of Henley-on-Thames....

    , Medmenham (Danesfield Camp)
    Medmenham
    Medmenham is a village and civil parish in the Wycombe district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is on the River Thames, about three and a half miles southwest of Marlow and three miles east of Henley-on-Thames....

    ,
  • Norbury
    Norbury
    Norbury is a town in the London Borough of Croydon, also crossing the London Borough of Merton. It shares the postcode London SW16 with nearby Streatham. Norbury is south of Charing Cross.-History:...

  • Pulpit Hill
  • Seven Ways Plain (Burnham Beeches)
    Burnham Beeches
    Burnham Beeches is an area of 220 hectares of ancient woodland, located close to Farnham Common, Burnham and Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire. It is approximately 25 miles to the west of London, England.-Preservation:...

    , Southend Hill, States House Hillfort,
  • Taplow
    Taplow
    Taplow is a village and civil parish within South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire, England. It sits on the east bank of the River Thames facing Maidenhead on the opposite bank. Taplow railway station is situated near the A4 south of the village....

    ,
  • West Wycombe Camp
    West Wycombe
    West Wycombe is a small village situated along the A40 road, due three miles west of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.The historic village is largely a National Trust property and receives a large annual influx of tourists - being the site of West Wycombe Park, West Wycombe Caves and the...

    , Whelpley Hill
    Whelpley Hill
    Whelpley Hill is a hamlet in the parish of Ashley Green in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located to the east of Chesham, near the border with Hertfordshire and is the site of an Iron Age hillfort....

    .

Cambridgeshire

  • Belsars Hill, Borough Hill, Sawston,
  • Stonea Camp
    Stonea Camp
    Stonea Camp is an Iron Age hill fort located near March in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Situated on a gravel bank just above sea-level, it is the lowest hill fort in Britain. Around 500 BC, when fortification is thought to have begun at this site, this "hill" would have provided a significant area of...

    ,
  • Wandlebury Hill
    Wandlebury Hill
    Wandlebury Hill is a hill in the Gog Magog Downs, a ridge of low chalk hills extending for several miles to the southeast of Cambridge, England. The underlying rock is present in a number of places on the hill...

    , War Ditches, Wardy Hill
    Wardy Hill
    Wardy Hill is a hamlet in Coveney civil parish, part of East Cambridgeshire, England. It is also the site of a former Iron Age Hillfort...


Cheshire

  • Beeston Castle, Bradley hill fort
    Bradley hill fort
    Bradley hill fort is an Iron Age hill fort. Hill forts were fortified hill-tops, used as settlements or temporary refuges, constructed across Britain during the Iron Age. It is the smallest of the seven hill forts in the county of Cheshire in northern England...

    , Burton Point
  • Castle Ditch, Delamere
  • Eddisbury hill fort
    Eddisbury hill fort
    Eddisbury hill fort, also known as Castle Ditch, is an Iron Age hill fort near Delamere, Cheshire, in northern England. Hill forts are fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age. Eddisbury is the largest and most complex of the seven hill forts in the county of...

  • Helsby hill fort
    Helsby hill fort
    thumb|right|250px|Helsby hill fortHelsby hill fort is an Iron Age hillfort to the east of Helsby. Helsby Hill has steep cliffs on the northern and western sides, providing a natural semicircular defence. Double rampart earthworks extend to the south and east to provide protection to those flanks...

  • Kelsborrow Castle
    Kelsborrow Castle
    Kelsborrow Castle is an Iron Age hill fort. Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age. It is one of only seven hill forts in the county of Cheshire in northern England and was probably in use for only a short time. In the 19th century, a bronze...

  • Maiden Castle
    Maiden Castle, Cheshire
    Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hill fort, one of many fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age, but one of only seven in the county of Cheshire in northern England. The hill fort was probably occupied from its construction in 600 BC until the Roman conquest...

  • Oakmere hill fort
    Oakmere hill fort
    Oakmere hill fort is an Iron Age hill fort, one of many large fortified settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age, but one of only seven in the county of Cheshire in northern England. It is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument...

  • Woodhouses hill fort
    Woodhouses hill fort
    Woodhouses hill fort is an Iron Age hillfort to the East of Helsby, and at the northern end of the Mid Cheshire Ridge. Woodhouse Hill has steep cliffs on the western sides, providing a natural defense. It is defended by a rampart to the north and east where the ground slopes more gently...


Cornwall

  • Allabury, St Agnes Beacon, St Allen
    St Allen
    St Allen is a civil parish in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The church town of St Allen is an isolated hamlet and the main settlement in the parish is Zelah which is situated on the A30 trunk road four miles north of Truro....

    , Ash Bury,
  • Bury Castle, Bury Down, Lanreath, Blacketon Rings, Bosigran Castle,
  • Cadson Bury, Caer Bran
    Caer Bran
    Caer Bran Hill Fort is an archaeological site near Sancreed and Carn Euny Iron Age village, on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall.It is a popular location for walkers and antiquarians because it commands a stunning 360 degree panorama of the entire Penwith peninsula which probably accounts for its...

    , Caer Dane, Carn Brea
    Carn Brea
    Carn Brea is a civil parish and hilltop site in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The hilltop site is situated approximately one mile southwest of Redruth.-Neolithic settlement:...

    , Castle Dore
    Castle Dore
    Castle Dore is an Iron Age and early mediaeval hill fort near Fowey in Cornwall, United Kingdom located at .- Description and History :It consists of circular bank and ditch enclosure with a second enclosure nearby thought to have been an animal corral...

    , Castle an Dinas, St. Columb Major
    Castle an Dinas, St. Columb Major
    Castle an Dinas is an Iron Age hillfort near St. Columb Major in Cornwall, UK and is considered one of the most important hillforts in the southwest of Britain. It dates from around the 3rd to 2nd century BCE and consists of three ditch and rampart concentric rings, 850 feet above sea level....

    , Castle Killibury Camp, Castle Pencaire (Breage), Chûn Castle
    Chûn Castle
    Chûn Castle is a large Iron Age hillfort near Penzance in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The fort was built around two and a half thousand years ago, and fell into disuse until the 6th century AD when it was possibly reoccupied to protect the nearby tin mines. It stands beside a prehistoric trackway...

    , Crane Castle, St Cuby's Church
  • Dean Point, Demelza Castle, St Dennis Hill Fort, Dingerein Castle, Dodman Point
    Dodman Point
    Dodman Point is a high headland near Mevagissey, Cornwall. It was once an Iron Age promontory fort. At its seaward end is a large granite cross, erected to help protect shipping from this headland...

    , St Dominick Hillfort, Dunmere fort, Dunterton Hillfort,
  • Faughan,
  • Gear fort, Golden Camp, Gurnard's Head
    Gurnard's Head
    Gurnard's Head is a prominent headland on the north coast of the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is near the hamlet of Treen in the parish of Zennor....

    ,
  • Hall Rings, Helbury Castle, Hilton Wood Castle,
  • Kelly Rounds
    Kelly Rounds
    Kelly Rounds, or Castle Killibury is an Iron Age hill fort in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated beside the A39 trunk road approximately two miles east of Wadebridge....

    , Kelsey Head, Kenidjack Castle, Kenwyn Hillfort, Kestle Rings,
  • Ladock Hillfort, Largin Castle, Lescudjack Hill Fort
    Lescudjack Hill Fort
    Lescudjack Hill fort is the name given to the unexcavated Iron Age settlement located in Penzance, Cornwall. The name might originate from the Cornish words lan and scosek - shielded enclosure or, more likely, "nans" and "cosek"...

    , Lesingey Round, Liveloe,
  • Maen Castle
    Maen Castle
    Maen Castle is an Iron Age promontory fort or 'cliff castle' close to Land's End in Cornwall. It is one of only two fortified sites in Cornwall where Early Iron Age pottery has been found...

    ,
  • Nattlebury St Newlyn East
    St Newlyn East
    St Newlyn East is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The village is situated approximately three miles south of Newquay...

    , St Newlyn East (Fiddlers Green),
  • Padderbury, Pencarrow Rounds, Penhargard Castle, Polyphant Hillfort, Prideaux Castle
    Prideaux Castle
    Prideaux Castle is a quadrivallate Iron Age hillfort situated atop a 133 m high conical hill near the southern boundary of the parish of Luxulyan, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom...

    , Prospidnick Hill,
  • Rame Head
    Rame Head
    Rame Head is a coastal headland, southwest of the village of Rame in southeast Cornwall, United Kingdom.-History and antiquities:The site was used for a hill fort in the Iron Age. The headland has a prominent chapel, dedicated to St Michael, accessible by a steep footpath...

    , Redcliff Castle, Resugga Castle, Rough Tor
    Rough Tor
    Rough Tor, or Roughtor, rowter, is a hill and tor on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. Its summit is 1313 ft above mean sea level, making it the second highest point in Cornwall....

    , Round Wood, The Rumps
    The Rumps
    The Rumps is a twin-headland promontory at the north-east corner of Pentire Head in north Cornwall, United Kingdom.The promontory is formed from hard basaltic rock and projects north into the Atlantic Ocean. Its headlands lie east-to-west...

    ,
  • Stowe's Pound, St Stephens Beacon,
  • Tregarrick Tor, Trereen Dinas, Tregeare Rounds, Trelaske hillfort, Trencrom Hill
    Trencrom Hill
    Trencrom Hill is a prominent hill fort, owned by the National Trust, near Lelant, Cornwall. It is crowned by an univallate Neolithic tor enclosure and was re-used as a hillfort in the Iron Age. Cairns or hut circles can be seen in the level area enclosed by the stone and earth banks. The hill...

    , Treryn Dinas, Tresawsen (Perranzabuloe), Trevelque Head, Trewinnion
    Trewinnion
    Trewinnion is a hamlet in central Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated north of the village of Summercourt about four miles south-west of Newquay. The settlement consists of a large farmstead and several cottages...

    , Trewardreva, Treyarnon fort,
  • Warbstow Bury,
  • Yearle's Wood'

Cumbria

  • Allen Knott (Troutbeck),
  • Black Castle Hill,
  • Carrock Fell
    Carrock Fell
    Carrock Fell is a fell in the English Lake District, situated in the northern region of the national park 13 kilometres north east of Keswick. The fell's name means "Rocky Fell" and comes from a combination of the Old Welsh language with the word "carrec" meaning rock and the Old Norse language...

    , Castle Crag (Borrowdale)
    Castle Crag
    Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District. It is the smallest hill included in Alfred Wainwright's influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, the only Wainwright below 1,000 ft....

    , Castle Crag (Haweswater), Castle Crag (Thirlmere), Castle Head hillfort, Castle How Hillfort, Castle Howe, Castlesteads (Askham), Castlesteads (Natland), Croglam Castle,
  • Dunmallard Hillfort, Dyke House fort,
  • Kingmoor, Knipe Scar, Thrimby,
  • Recastle Crag,
  • Stainton Hillfort, Swarthy Hill, Crosscanonby,

Derbyshire

  • Ball Cross, Borough Hill,
  • Castle Ring
    Castle Ring
    Castle Ring is an Iron Age hill fort, situated high up on the southern edge of Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, in the village of Cannock Wood, England. Castle Ring was thought to have been occupied around AD 50, by the Celtic Cornovii tribe....

    ,
  • Fin Cop
    Fin Cop
    Fin Cop is a hill and associated Iron Age hill fort close to Ashford in the Water in Derbyshire, England.The fort shows evidence of hurried construction, indicating a defensive response to a real threat, rather than the more usual assumption that such forts were a display of status and...

    ,
  • Mam Tor
    Mam Tor
    Mam Tor is a hill near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England. Its name literally translates as Heights of the Mother and it is also known as the Shivering Mountain on account of the instability of its lower shale layers...

    , Markland Grips, Mouselow Castle,

Devon

  • Beacon Castle
    Beacon Castle
    Beacon Castle is an Iron Age hill fort close to Parracombe in Devon, England. It is situated on a hilltop some above sea level, overlooking the Heddon Valley....

    , Belbury Castle
    Belbury Castle
    Belbury Castle is the name given to an Iron Age earthwork, probably a hill fort or livestock enclosure, close to Ottery St Mary in Devon, England. The earthwork is on part of a hilltop at approximately above sea level....

    , Berry Castle, Black Dog
    Berry Castle, Black Dog
    Berry Castle is an earthwork probably dating to the Iron Age close to Black Dog in Devon north of Crediton and west of Tiverton. It does not fit the traditional pattern of an Iron Age Hill fort. Although the earthwork would seem to be an incomplete enclosure, it is not at the top of a hill,...

    , Berry Castle, Weare Giffard, Berry Head
    Berry Head
    Berry Head is a coastal headland at the southern end of Torbay, to the southeast of Brixham, Devon, England.-National Nature Reserve:Berry Head to Sharkham Point is a haven for several nationally rare and threatened species which are dependent upon the thin limestone soils, mild climate and exposed...

    , Berry camp
    Berry camp
    Berry Camp or Berry Cliff, is an Iron Age Hill fort on a partially eroded Cliff Top close to Branscombe in Devon. The Cliff is situated some 140 Metres above Sea Level....

    , Berry's Wood
    Berry's Wood
    Berry's Wood is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to Newton Abbot in Devon, England. The fort is situated at about 75 metres above sea level on a commanding promontory above the River Lemon with views down the Teign Estuary....

    , Blackbury Camp
    Blackbury Camp
    Blackbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort situated near Seaton, Devon, England. The ramparts are still relatively high, showing an unusual entrance feature. The fort occupies the end of a large ridge at some above sea level. It was defended by a single bank and ditch, forming a roughly D-shaped...

    , Blackdown Rings
    Blackdown Rings
    The Blackdown Rings are the earthworks of an Iron Age hill fort near the hamlet of Hazelwood in Devon, England. The fort is situated on a hilltop approximately above sea level, in a commanding position above the River Avon....

    , Bolt Tail
    Bolt Tail
    Bolt Tail is a headland in Devon, England. It is located immediately to the southwest of Hope Cove in the South Hams district, at grid reference ....

    , Boringdon Camp
    Boringdon Camp
    Boringdon Camp is an Iron Age and Roman earthwork in Cann Woods, near Plympton, Plymouth, Devon situated on a commanding hilltop at 140 Metres above Sea Level, with views down the Plym Valley of Plymouth Sound. It is a Scheduled Monument....

    , Bremridge Wood
    Bremridge Wood
    Bremridge Wood is the site of an Iron Age enclosure or hill fort situated close to South Molton in Devon, England. The earthwork is situated in woodland on a Hillside forming a promontory above the River Bray to the West of the Town at approx 175 Metres above Sea Level....

    , Brent Hill
    Brent Hill
    Brent Hill is the site of an Iron Age hill fort situated close to South Brent in Devon, England. The fort occupies the top of Brent Hill at approx 311 Metres above Sea Level....

    , Brent Tor
    Brent Tor
    Brent Tor is a tor on the western edge of Dartmoor, approximately five miles north of Tavistock, rising to 1100ft above sea level. The Tor is surmounted by the Church of St Michael, the parish church of the village of Brentor, which lies below the Tor.-Geology:Brent Tor is a unique example of an...

    , Burley Wood
    Burley Wood
    Burley Wood is the site of an Iron Age hill fort North of Lydford in Devon. The fort occupies much of a hilltop some 220 metres above sea level overlooking the river Lew. The site also has a Norman motte-and-bailey earthwork just below it to the northeast at approx 215 metres above sea level....

    , Burridge Fort
    Burridge Fort
    Burridge Fort is an Iron Age Hill fort situated to the North East of Barnstaple in Devon, England. The fort occupies a hill top approx 150 Metres above Sea Level overlooking the Yeo and Bradiford rivers....

  • Cadbury Castle, Devon
    Cadbury Castle, Devon
    Cadbury Castle is an Iron Age Hillfort close to Bickleigh, Devon, England. It was later encamped by the Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War under Thomas Fairfax when he laid siege to Bickleigh Castle....

    , Capton
    Capton
    Capton is a village near Dartmouth in Devon, England.On a hilltop to the east of the village is an Iron Age enclosure or hill fort approximately 185 m above sea level....

    , Castle Close
    Castle Close
    Castle Close is a circular earthwork located near Stoodleigh in Mid Devon, England at OS grid reference SS937181. It is described on maps as a settlement...

    , Castle Head, Devon
    Castle Head, Devon
    Castle Head is a British Iron Age Hill fort occupying a commanding position on a promontory at the neck of a bow in the River Tamar on the Devon side close to Dunterton...

    , Castle Hill, Torrington
    Castle Hill, Torrington
    There are two hills named Castle Hill within the immediate environs of Great Torrington in Devon, England. The first is within the town and is the site of the Norman & mediaeval castles, but was probably an Iron Age hill fort before this....

    , Clovelly Dykes
    Clovelly Dykes
    Clovelly Dykes is an Iron Age hill fort or earthwork near Clovelly, Devon, England. Situated on the high plateau behind the coast at approx 210 metres above sea level, it is one of the largest and most impressive Early Iron Age hill-forts in Devon. It is a complex series of earthworks covering more...

    , Cotley Castle
    Cotley Castle
    Cotley Castle is a large Iron Age Hill fort near Dunchideock in Devon and close to Exeter. It occupies a significant hilltop at 220 metres above sea level, just to the north of Great Haldon, part of the same ridge of the Haldon Hills....

    , Cranbrook Castle
    Cranbrook Castle
    Cranbrook Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort occupying a commanding hilltop just to the south of and overlooking the Teign valley in Devon. It is roughly 330 metres above sea level and 2 km south and slightly west of Prestonbury castle, 3 km west of Wooston Castle.-References:...

    , Cranmore Castle
    Cranmore Castle
    Cranmore Castle is an Iron Age earthwork situated on a hillside above the Devon town of Tiverton in south-west England. Its National Grid reference is SS958118...

    , Cunnilear Camp
    Cunnilear Camp
    Cunnilear Camp is an Iron Age hill fort close to the village of Loxhore in Devon, England. It is on a hillside forming a promontory above the River Yeo to the south of the village, at approximately above sea level....

  • Denbury Hill, Dewerstone
    Dewerstone
    Dewerstone is the site of an Iron Age Hill fort on a rocky promontory overlooking the River Plym on the South West edge of Dartmoor to the North of Plympton in Devon...

    , Dolbury
    Dolbury
    Dolbury is another local name for the Iron Age Hill fort or enclosure at Killerton Park in Devon it is referred to as such in several Books and websites on Iron Age sites. The Hill Fort is situated on a hilltop some 128 Metres above Sea Level, the hilltop has a flat promontory jutting out...

    , Dumpdon Hill
    Dumpdon Hill
    Dumpdon Hill is an Iron Age Hill Fort near Honiton in Devon, somewhat overshadowed by its better known neighbour Hembury Fort it is nonetheless as impressive an earthwork....

    , Embury Beacon
    Embury Beacon
    Embury Beacon is the site of an Iron Age Hill fort on the West of the Hartland Peninsula to the North of Bude and West of Clovelly in North Devon. The fort almost entirely been lost to coastal erosion, but a fraction of the Eastern Ramparts still exist at approx 150 Metres above Sea Level....

  • Halwell Camp
    Halwell Camp
    Halwell Camp is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to the village of Halwell in Devon, England. The fort is situated on a pass between two hilltops to the east of the village at approx 185 metres above sea level....

    , Hawkesdown Hill
    Hawkesdown Hill
    Hawkesdown Hill is an Iron Age Hill fort close to Axmouth in Devon situated on a prominent hillside above the Axe Estuary. It is approximately 132 Metres above Sea Level....

    , Hembury
    Hembury
    Hembury is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure near Honiton in Devon. It dates from the late fifth and early fourth millennia BC onwards to the Roman Invasion. The fort is situated on a promontory to the North of and overlooking the River Otter Valley at approx 178 Metres above Sea Level.It has given...

    , Hembury Castle, Tythecott
    Hembury Castle, Tythecott
    Hembury Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort situated close to Tythecott, south of Buckland Brewer in Devon. The fort is situated on a promontory off the East of a large hill at some 137 Metres above Sea Level....

    , High Peak, Devon
    High Peak, Devon
    High Peak is a partially eroded hill on the English Channel coast near Sidmouth, Devon, southern England.- Location :High Peak is to the southwest of the town Sidmouth and to the northeast of the village of Otterton...

    , Hillsborough, Devon
    Hillsborough, Devon
    Hillsborough is a Local Nature Reserve in Ilfracombe, North Devon and is known locally as the sleeping elephant. It is also the site of an Iron Age Hill fort atop the cliff on a Promontory at approx 115 metres above sea level. The fort takes the classic shape of a Promontory reinforced and cut off...

    , Holbury, Holbeton
    Holbury, Holbeton
    Holbury is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to Holbeton in Devon, England. The fort is situated on a hilltop east of the Village approximately 95 metres above sea level overlooking the Erme Estuary....

    , Holne Chase Castle
    Holne Chase Castle
    Holne Chase Castle is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to Buckland-in-the-Moor in Devon, England. The fort is situated on a promontory on the Northern slopes of Holne Chase in Chase Wood at approx 150 Metres above Sea Level overlooking the River Dart....

    , Huntsham castle
    Huntsham castle
    Huntsham Castle, Devon, England is an Iron Age Hill fort enclosure, located 260M above sea level on the edge of the former Parish of Tiverton....

  • Kentisbury Down
    Kentisbury Down
    Kentisbury Down is the location an Iron Age enclosure or hill fort situated close to Blackmore Gate on the edge of Exmoor in Devon, England. The enclosure - a simple 'round' is situated on the southeast slope of the Down above the ancient crossroads at approx 320 Metres above Sea Level....

    , Killerton
    Killerton
    Killerton is an 18th-century house in Broadclyst, Exeter, Devon, England, which, with its hillside garden and estate, has been owned by the National Trust since 1944 and is open to the public...

    , Knowle Hill Castle
    Knowle Hill Castle
    Knowle Hill Castle is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to Braunton in Devon, England. The fort is situated on a hillside forming a promontory above the River Caen at approx 90 metres above sea level to the north of the town, close to the village of Knowle....

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  • Lee Wood
    Lee Wood
    Lee Wood is the location of an Iron Age enclosure or hill fort situated near to Braunton and Barnstaple in Devon, England. The enclosure is situated on a sloping Hillside forming a promontory above the Knowle Water at approx 120 Metres above Sea Level to the north east of Braunton and north west of...

  • Membury Castle
    Membury Castle
    Membury Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort situated above the Village of Membury in Devon. The fort occupies a commanding hilltop position some 204 metres above sea level with views across both the Yarty & Axe Valleys....

    , Milber Down
    Milber Down
    Milber Down is an Iron Age hill fort on the hill above the suburb of Milber, Newton Abbot in Devon, England. The fort is situated on the north-western slope of Milber Down at about 110 metres above sea level, and is bisected by the minor ridge road that leads to Barton, Torquay. One Iron Age...

    , Mockham down
    Mockham down
    Mockham Down is the site of an Iron Age Hill Fort close to Brayfordhill in Devon, England. It takes the form of a multi-ditch and rampart enclosure close to the top of the hill known as Mockham Down at an elevation approx 310 Metres above Sea Level. There is a smaller enclosure approx 2km to the...

    , Musbury Castle
    Musbury Castle
    Musbury Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort situated above the Village of Musbury in Devon. The fort occupies a commanding hill top approx 175 Metres above Sea Level overlooking the Axe valleyat Ordnance Survey ....

    , Myrtlebury
    Myrtlebury
    Myrtlebury is an Iron Age enclosure or 'spur' hill fort situated close to Lynmouth in Devon, England. The fort is effectively the north east of a Hillside forming a spur or promontory above the steep valley of the East Lyn River to the East of the Village at approx 150 Metres above Sea Level....

  • Newberry Castle
    Newberry Castle
    Newberry Castle is an Iron Age Hill Fort close to Combe Martin in Devon, England.It takes the form of an earthwork hillside enclosure close on an outcrop of a hill on the north eastern shoulder of Newberry Hill at an elevation 110 Metres above Sea Level....

    , Noss, Dartmouth
    Noss, Dartmouth
    Noss is the name given to an Iron Age hill fort situated close to Dartmouth in Devon, England. The fort is situated on the South Western slope of a promontory on the Eastern side of a hill west of the Village of Hillhead some 65-80 Metres above Sea Level overlooking Noss Point in the Dart Estuary....

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  • Peppercombe Castle
    Peppercombe Castle
    Peppercombe Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort situated on cliffs to the East of Bucks Mills in North Devon. The remains of the fort are hard to define from maps and it may well be that much of the site has been lost to coastal erosion, but it would seem to have been at around 80 m above sea...

    , Posbury
    Posbury
    Posbury Hill Fort is an unexcavated Iron Age Hill fort, located three miles from Crediton, Devon. It consists today of an incomplete earthwork partly enclosing a hilltop 180 metres above sea level...

    , Prestonbury castle
  • Raddon Top
    Raddon Top
    Raddon Top is the highest point of the Raddon Hills, a small ridge of hills in the Shobrooke area of Mid Devon. The summit is at some 235 Metres above Sea Level, making it a significant feature in the surrounding countryside....

    , Roborough Castle
    Roborough Castle
    Roborough Castle is an Iron Age enclosure or hill fort situated close to Lynton in Devon, England. The fort is situated on the North East edge of a Hillside forming a promontory above a tributary to the East Lyn River known as Hoaroak Water at approx 320 Metres above Sea Level....

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  • Seaton Down
    Seaton Down
    Seaton Down is the location of an Iron Age hill fort that takes the form of an earthwork with a large linear rampart cutting a promontory of land at the northeast end of the down off as a defensive fortification. It is slightly unusual in this layout when compared with other forts in the area. The...

    , Shoulsbury castle
    Shoulsbury castle
    Shoulsbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort close to Challacombe in Devon, England. It takes the form of a multi-ditch and rampart enclosure close to the top of a hill on the shoulder of Shoulsbarrow Common at an elevation of above sea level.-External links:...

    , Sidbury Castle
    Sidbury Castle
    Sidbury Castle is a substantial Iron Age hill fort near Sidbury in Devon, England. It occupies a large hilltop overlooking the town and the River Sid at approximately above sea level....

    , Slapton Castle
    Slapton Castle
    Slapton Castle is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to Slapton in Devon, England. The fort is on a promontory on the eastern side of a hilltop at approximately above sea level, overlooking Slapton Ley....

    , Smythapark
    Smythapark
    Smythapark is the site of an Iron Age hill fort, situated close to the village of Bratton Fleming in Devon, England. The site is on a hillside forming a promontory above a tributary of the River Yeo to the west of the village, at approximately above sea level. The surrounding area is rich in small...

    , Stanborough
    Stanborough
    Stanborough is the site of an Iron Age hill fort near the village of Halwell, south of Totnes, Devon, England. The fort is situated on a promontory on the western edge of a hill at about above sea level....

    , Stockland Castle
    Stockland Castle
    Stockland Castle is the name given to two Iron Age hill forts on Stockland Hill close to Stockland in Devon, England. Stockland Great Castle occupies a position on the eastern slope of the hill at above sea level...

    , Stoke Hill
    Stoke Hill
    Stoke Hill is a large hill rising to the north of Exeter in Devon, England. It is significant as the site of both an Iron Age hill fort and a later Roman signal station....

  • Voley Castle
    Voley Castle
    Voley Castle is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to Parracombe in Devon, England. The fort is situated on a promontory on the Eastern side of Heale Down at approx 230 Metres above Sea Level....

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  • Wasteberry Camp
    Wasteberry Camp
    Wasteberry Camp is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to the hamlet of Blackpool, southeast of Plympton, Devon, England. The fort is situated on a hilltop in Warren Wood at approximately above sea level, overlooking Silverbridge Lake....

    , Wind Hill
    Wind Hill
    Wind Hill, situated close to Lynmouth in Devon, England, is the location of an Iron Age enclosure or "spur" hill fort. The site is effectively a hillside forming a spur or promontory between the steep valley of the East Lyn River to the south and the cliffs to the north...

    , Windbury Head
    Windbury Head
    Windbury Head is the site of an Iron Age hill fort on the Hartland Peninsula, just north of Clovelly in North Devon, England. Most of the fort has been lost to coastal erosion, but the southern ramparts still exist at approximately above sea level....

    , Woodbury Castle
    Woodbury Castle
    Woodbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort near the village of Woodbury in the English county of Devon, some eight miles southeast of the city of Exeter....

    , Woodbury, Dartmouth
    Woodbury, Dartmouth
    Woodbury is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to Dartmouth in Devon, England. The fort is situated on a promontory on the southern side of Norton Down at approximately above sea level....

    , Wooston Castle
    Wooston Castle
    Wooston Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort situated on the edge of a hill overlooking the Teign Valley in Devon some 200 metres above sea level, only 3 km south and east of Prestonbury Castle and 5 km east of Cranbrook Castle.-References:...

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  • Yarrowbury
    Yarrowbury
    Yarrowbury is an Iron Age hill fort situated close to Bigbury in Devon, England. The fort is situated on Hilltop to the north east of the village at approximately 80 metres above sea level, overlooking the Avon Estuary....

    , Yellowberries Copse
    Yellowberries Copse
    Yellowberries Copse is an Iron Age enclosure, or possibly hill fort situated South of South Brent in Devon, England. The fort is situated on the North West slope of Cutwell Hill at approx 155 Metres above Sea Level....


Dorset

  • Abbotsbury Castle
    Abbotsbury Castle
    Abbotsbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort in south west Dorset, England, situated on Wears Hill above the village of Abbotsbury, seven miles west of Dorchester and the famous hill fort at Maiden Castle. The fort was occupied by the Celtic Durotriges tribe and was situated on a high chalk hill...

    , Allington, Dorset
    Allington, Dorset
    Allington is a large village and civil parish in Dorset, England. The village has a population of 614 according to the 2001 Census.Allington Hill is an Iron Age hill fort risingto 90m above the village, now managed by the Woodland Trust...

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  • Badbury Rings
    Badbury Rings
    Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort in east Dorset, England, dating from 800 BC and in use until the Roman occupation of 43 AD.-Iron Age:...

    , Bindon Hill
    Bindon Hill
    Bindon Hill is an extensive Iron Age earthwork enclosing a coastal hill area near Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England.- Location :The Hill is located about 19 kilometres west of Swanage, about six kilometres south west of Wareham and about 17 kilometres south east of Dorchester.Bindon Hill is only...

  • Coney's Castle
    Coney's Castle
    Coney's Castle is an Iron Age hill fort in Dorset, England. The name Coney is from the Old English for rabbit , suggesting medieval use as a domestic warren, as at nearby Pilsdon Pen....

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  • Eggardon Hill
    Eggardon Hill
    Eggardon Hill is located on chalk uplands approximately four miles to the east of Bridport, in the English county of Dorset. It stands 250 metres above sea level, and provides panoramic views to the south, north and west...

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  • Flower's Barrow
    Flower's Barrow
    Flower’s Barrow is an Iron Age hillfort, built over 2500 years ago, above Worbarrow Bay in Dorset on the south coast of England.- Location :Flower’s Barrow is located about 16 kilometres from Swanage and about six kilometres south of Wareham....

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  • Hambledon Hill
    Hambledon Hill
    Hambledon Hill is a prehistoric hill fort in Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale five miles north of Blandford Forum. The hill is a Chalk outcrop, on the south western corner of Cranborne Chase, separated from the Dorset Downs by the River Stour....

    , Hod Hill
    Hod Hill
    Hod Hill is a large hill fort in the Blackmore Vale, north-west of Blandford Forum, Dorset, England. The fort sits on a chalk hill that is detached from the Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase. The hill fort at Hambledon Hill is just to the north.The fort is roughly rectangular , with an enclosed...

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  • Lambert's Castle
    Lambert's Castle
    Lambert's Castle is an Iron Age hill fort in the county of Dorset in southwest England. Since 1981 it has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest on account of its geology, archaeology and ecology....

    , Lewesdon Hill
    Lewesdon Hill
    Lewesdon Hill is about 4 km west of Beaminster in south west Dorset, England. Like many of the high hills in Dorset, including its neighbour Pilsdon Pen, it is the site of an Iron Age hill fort...

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  • Maiden Castle, Dorset
    Maiden Castle, Dorset
    Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hill fort south west of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age...

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  • Pilsdon Pen
    Pilsdon Pen
    Pilsdon Pen is a 277 metre hill in West Dorset, England, situated five miles west of Beaminster at the north end of the Marshwood Vale. It is Dorset's second highest point and has panoramic views extending for many miles...

    , Poundbury Hill
    Poundbury Hill
    Poundbury Hill hill fort is the site of a Middle Bronze Age enclosure. It is roughly rectangular and it is likely that it was designed to command views over the River Frome and the Frome valley to the north. The main entrance to the fort is on the eastern end. It overlooks the county town of...


Gloucestershire

  • Abbey Camp,
  • Bloody Acre,
  • Bury Hill, Winterbourne,
  • Camp Hill, Thornbury,
  • Cleeve Hill
    Cleeve Hill
    Cleeve Hill is the highest point both in the Cotswolds hill range and in the county of Gloucestershire, at . It commands a clear view to the west, over Cheltenham and the racecourse, over the River Severn and into Wales; and to the north over Winchcombe. It is a conspicuous outcrop on the edge of...

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  • Dyrham Camp,
  • Elberton Camp,
  • Horton Camp
  • Little Sodbury
    Little Sodbury
    Little Sodbury is an English village in South Gloucestershire, located between Chipping Sodbury, to the West, Old Sodbury to the South, Badminton, and the A46 road to the East and Horton and Hawkesbury Upton, to the north....

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  • Lydney Park
    Lydney Park
    Lydney Park is a 17th century country estate surrounding Lydney House, located at Lydney in the Forest of Dean district in Gloucestershire, England. It is known for its gardens and Roman temple complex.-House and gardens:...

  • Knole Park Camp
  • Solsbury Hill
    Solsbury Hill
    Little Solsbury Hill is a small flat-topped hill and the site of an Iron Age hill fort. It is located above the village of Batheaston in Somerset, England. The hill rises to above the River Avon which is just over to the south. It is within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty...

  • The Castle, Tytherington,

Tog Hill, Cold Ashton,
  • Uley Bury
    Uley Bury
    right|thumb|500px|View along the north-eastern rampart of Uley Bury, drawn by E.J. Burrow in 1913Uley Bury is the long, flat-topped hill just outside Uley, Gloucestershire, England. It is an impressive multi-vallate, scarp-edge Iron Age hill fort dating from around 300 B.C...

  • Welshbury Hill
    Welshbury Hill
    Welshbury Hill is an Iron Age hill fort near Mitcheldean in Gloucestershire, England. It was built by the local Celtic people that lived there before Roman times. There is an ancient spring water well nearby known locally as St Anthony's Well....


Hampshire

  • Ashleys Copse
    Ashleys Copse
    thumb|right|250px|Ashley's Copse hill fortAshley's Copse is the site of an Iron Age hillfort near to Salisbury. The Hampshire Wiltshire border runs right through the middle of this site. The site is half wooded, and here can be found the best preserved earthworks, but there is also visible evidence...

    , Balksbury
    Balksbury
    Balksbury is the site of a former Bronze Age hillfort to the southwest of Andover, Hampshire. Originally triangular in shape, most of it has been destroyed by the A303 Andover Bypass, and a large housing development. Only the very southwest parts survive, visible, and up to 1m in height...

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  • Beacon Hill
    Beacon Hill, Burghclere, Hampshire
    Beacon Hill is near the village of Burghclere and Watership Down, in north Hampshire. The hill's name is derived from the fact that it was one of many Beacon Hills in England and beyond. This hill was once the site of the most famous beacon in Hampshire. It is 261 metres high and has one of...

    , Bevisbury
    Bevisbury
    Bevisbury is the site of a former Iron Age plateau fort of a single bank and ditch construction. The site is now largely destroyed and overgrown and the southern ramparts are the best preserved...

    , Buckland Rings
    Buckland Rings
    Buckland Rings is the site of an Iron Age hill fort in the town of Lymington, Hampshire. Today, the mounds and dykes around the outside which once constituted its defences are still clearly visible, although the outer bank lies under the road on the west side, and on the south-east it is nearly...

    , Bullsdown Camp
    Bullsdown Camp
    Bullsdown Camp is the site of a former Iron Age plateau fort in the County of Hampshire. The site is heavily wooded, and close ispection is required to observe the three bank and ditch fortifications. Although eroded heavily the earthworks are still impressive...

    , Bury Hill
    Bury Hill
    thumb|right|250px|Part of the footpath that circles Bury Hill fortBury Hill, is the site of a former Iron Age hillfort about southwest of the centre of Andover, Hampshire. The site encloses about...

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  • Caesar's Camp
    Caesar's Camp
    Caesar's Camp is a name used for many Iron Age hill forts in England.These include:Bedfordshire* Caesar's Camp near SandyBerkshire* Caesar's Camp, Bracknell ForestLondon* Caesar's Camp on Wimbledon CommonSurrey* Caesar's Camp near Farnham...

    , Castle Hill
    Castle Hill, Hampshire
    thumb|right|250px|Castle Hill, HampshireCastle Hill is the site of an Iron Age univailate hillfort located in the civil parish of Burley in the New Forest national park in Hampshire, England. Its single rampart and ditch earthworks enclose approximately five acres of land and is in reasonable...

    , Chilworth Ring
    Chilworth Ring
    Chilworth Ring is the site of a small univallate Iron Age hillfort located in Hampshire. The site has now been developed into circle of detached houses lying within the ramparts, constructed sometime in the 1960s. The original bank can only be seen in the Easter quadrant where it is followed by the...

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  • Danebury
    Danebury
    Danebury is an Iron Age hill fort in Hampshire in England, about north-west of Winchester . The site, covering , was excavated by Barry Cunliffe in the 1970s...

    , Dunwood Camp
    Dunwood Camp
    Dunwood Camp is the site of an Iron Age hillfort located in Hampshire. It occupies the summit of a sandy hill. It has a single rampart but no definite indication of a ditch and it is possible that this earthwork was never completed.-Location:...

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  • Frankenbury Camp
    Frankenbury Camp
    Frankenbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Hampshire. The site is on a very slight promontory overlooking the Avon Valley on the north-western edge of the New Forest. The fort encloses approximately 11 acres. It has very steep natural slopes on the west and south...

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  • Gorley Hill
    Gorley Hill
    Gorley Hill is the site of a former Iron Age promontory hillfort located in Hampshire.The fort once occupied the southwestern corner of Gorley Common on Gorley Hill, a gravel-capped spur that points southwest into the Avon valley next to the hamlet of North Gorley, between the towns of...

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  • Hamble Common Camp
    Hamble Common Camp
    Hampshire Common Camp is the site of an Iron Age promontory hillfort located in Hampshire. The fort is located on Hampshire common on a peninsular of land formed between Southampton Water and the River Hamble-Location:...

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  • Knoll Camp
    Knoll Camp
    Knoll Camp, or Damerham Knoll, is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Hampshire.The fort comprises a circular earthwork containing about four acres. There is a single ditch with inner rampart and traces of counter scarp bank....

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  • Ladle Hill
    Ladle Hill
    Ladle Hill lies on Great Litchfield Down, near the village of Burghclere and Watership Down, in north Hampshire. It is immediately to the East of Beacon Hill. Part of the hill is a biological SSSI, number 1000642, first notified in 1978. It is 232 metres high and has a hill forts and Tumulus...

    , Lockerley Camp
    Lockerley Camp
    Lockerley Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Hampshire. Situated on a low gravel-capped plateau, it covers approximately 5 acres and is now much reduced by ploughing, for the majority of the site falls into farmland, although a small area to the north is within a small...

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  • Merdon Castle,
  • Norsebury Ring
    Norsebury Ring
    Norsebury Ring is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Hampshire. Now mostly ploughed out to the South and east, some ditches and ramparts remain within a small copsed area to the North and west, which are surprisingly intact with a small outer ditch, then a bank, then another...

  • Old Winchester Hill
    Old Winchester Hill
    Old Winchester Hill is a chalk hill in Hampshire, England surmounted by an Iron Age hill fort and a Bronze Age cemetery. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a National Nature Reserve. The hill fort has never been fully excavated.-Location:...

    , Oliver's Battery, Oram's Arbour
    Oram's Arbour
    Oram's Arbour was a hill fort during the Iron Age, which eventually became Venta Belgarum, Britannia and then Winchester, Hampshire, England....

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  • Quarley Hill
    Quarley Hill
    Quarley Hill is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort in Hampshire, southern England. The hill affords commanding views of the surrounding countryside. Oval in plan, the fort is in good condition with counter-scarp and well defined entrances at north-east and south-west. It is built on the...

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  • St. Catherine's Hill
    St. Catherine's Hill, Hampshire
    St. Catherine's Hill is a small but dramatic chalk hill to the south east of Winchester in Hampshire, England. Rising steeply some from the water meadows of the River Itchen, the summit of the hill at provides a fine view over Winchester....

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  • Tidbury Ring
    Tidbury Ring
    Tidbury Ring is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Hampshire. The earthworks have been heavily destroyed by ploughing, but some sections to the south remain in better condition. The entrance lies to the southeast of the fort...

    , The Frith
    The Frith
    The Frith is a small univallate Iron Age hillfort to the north of Silchester, Calleva Atrebatum, Roman town. A single bank covers all sides apart from the south east, and is at the most about 5 feet high on the western edge. A ditch is also traceable for the length of the bank, although at varying...

    , Toothill Fort
    Toothill Fort
    Toothill Fort, or Toothill Ring, or Toothill camp, is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Hampshire. The site occupies an extremely strong position at the north end of a spur. Its defences comprise a single rampart and ditch with traces of a counterscarp bank in places...

     Tourner Bury
    Tourner Bury
    East of Mengham on Hayling Island , Tourner Bury is the site of an Iron Age fort, as well as a woodland.A new golf course has been built to the north of Tournerbury Wood. To the south lies Mengham Rythe and to the east Chichester Harbour....

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  • Whitsbury Castle
    Whitsbury Castle
    Whitsbury Castle, or Whitsbury Castle Ditches, is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Hampshire. The fort is roughly pear-shaped, located on a chalk outcrop, and covering approximately sixteen acres. The defenses comprise two large ramparts with outer ditches and an additional...

    , Winklebury
    Winklebury
    Winklebury is a large suburb located two miles north-west of central Basingstoke in the UK. Up until the late 1960s Winklebury was a collection of small holdings but Basingstoke's growth as a London Overspill town saw the area developed for housing.-History:...

    , Woolbury
    Woolbury
    Woolbury, or Woolbury Ring, is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Hampshire. The site is described as a strong hilltop camp covering 20 acres, with a single bank and ditch, and has commanding views over the surrounding area. The bank and ditch are well preserved to the west, the...


Herefordshire

  • British Camp
    British Camp
    The British Camp is an Iron Age hill fort located at the top of Herefordshire Beacon in the Malvern Hills. The fort is thought to have been first constructed in the 2nd century BC...

  • Capler Camp
    Capler Camp
    Capler Camp is an Iron Age hill fort located 2.5 km south of Fownhope, Herefordshire.-Further reading:*Children, G; Nash, G Prehistoric Sites of Herefordshire Logaston Press ISBN 1873827091-External Links:...

  • Credenhill
    Credenhill
    Credenhill is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England,Near Credenhill is the site of the former Royal Air Force station RAF Hereford, which is now the headquarters of 22 Special Air Service Regiment.-Notable residents:...

  • Croft Ambrey
    Croft Ambrey
    Croft Ambrey is a British Iron Age hill fort in northern Herefordshire close to the present day county border with South Shropshire.- Location :...

  • Dinedor Hill
    Dinedor Hill
    Dinedor Hill is situated 2.5 miles south of Hereford. It is the site of Dinedor Camp, an iron age hillfort.-Further reading:*Children, G; Nash, G Prehistoric Sites of Herefordshire Logaston Press ISBN 1873827091-External Links:*...

  • Ivington Camp
    Ivington Camp
    Ivington Camp is an Iron Age hill fort located at Brierley, 3km south of Leominster, Herefordshire.-Further reading:*Children, G; Nash, G Prehistoric Sites of Herefordshire Logaston Press ISBN 1873827091-External Links:*...

  • Midsummer Hill
    Midsummer Hill
    Midsummer Hill is a large hillfort on the Malvern Hills. It can be accessed via a footpath which leads south from the car park at British Camp on the A449 or a footpath which heads north from the car park in Hollybush on the A438.-External Links:*...

  • Poston Camp
    Poston Camp
    Poston Camp is an Iron Age hill fort located just south of Vowchurch, Herefordshire.-Further reading:*Children, G; Nash, G Prehistoric Sites of Herefordshire Logaston Press ISBN 1873827091...

  • Sutton Walls Hill Fort
    Sutton Walls Hill Fort
    Sutton Walls Hillfort is an elongated ovoid Iron Age Hill fort located four miles north of the city of Hereford, England. It has been quarried for gravel, leaving behind a quarry that was used as a dump for toxic waste during the 1960s and 70s...

  • Wapley Hill
    Wapley Hill
    Wapley Hill is an Iron Age hill fort located in Herefordshire, England, 3km south-east of Presteigne.-Location:Wapley Hill stands in mixed woodland on a west-facing escarpment to the south of the B4362 road from Presteigne to Mortimer's Cross....


Hertfordshire

  • Arbury Banks
    Ashwell, Hertfordshire
    Ashwell is a village and civil parish situated about four miles north of Baldock in Hertfordshire.It has a wealth of architecture spanning several centuries. The dates almost entirely from the 14th century and is renowned for its ornate church tower which stands at , and is crowned by an...

    , The Aubreys
    Redbourn
    Redbourn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, lying on Watling Street, 3 miles from Harpenden, 4 miles from St Albans and 5 miles from Hemel Hempstead. It has a population of around 6,000.-History:...

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  • Ravensburgh Castle
    Hexton
    Hexton is a small village and civil parish about six miles west of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England.It stands in well wooded and hilly country adjacent to the Bedfordshire border. The church, dedicated to St Faith, is mediaeval with heavy 19th century restoration...

  • Wilbury Hill
    Letchworth
    Letchworth Garden City, commonly known as Letchworth, is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The town's name is taken from one of the three villages it surrounded - all of which featured in the Domesday Book. The land used was first purchased by Quakers who had intended to farm the...

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Leicestershire

  • Beacon Hill
    Beacon Hill, Leicestershire
    Beacon Hill, near Loughborough, in Leicestershire, England, is a popular country park. It is one of several beacon hills in the United Kingdom.The park consists of of grassland and woodland and offers recreational walking, and some short climbs...

  • Breedon hill fort
  • Burrough Hill
    Burrough Hill
    Burrough Hill is an Iron Age hillfort in Burrough on the Hill, south of Melton Mowbray in the English county of Leicestershire. Situated on a promontory about above sea level, the site commands views over the surrounding countryside for miles around. There has been human activity in the area...


Northamptonshire

  • Arbury Hill
    Arbury Hill
    Arbury Hill, at 225 m , is the highest point in the English county of Northamptonshire.It is southwest of the town of Daventry. The River Nene rises nearby.-Earthworks:...

    ,
  • Borough Hill
    Borough Hill
    Borough Hill is a hill to the east of the town of Daventry in the English county of Northamptonshire. It is over above sea level and dominates the surrounding area.-Archaeology:...

    ,
  • Hunsbury Hill
    Hunsbury Hill
    Hunsbury Hill is an Iron Age hill fort two miles south-west of the centre of the town of Northampton in the county of Northamptonshire.It is probable that defences were built at Hunsbury Hill between the 7th and 4th centuries BC. The deep ditch excavated has survived to the present day...

     or Danes Camp
  • Rainsborough Camp
    Rainsborough Camp
    Rainsborough Camp is an Iron Age fort located in South Northamptonshire, England, between the villages of Croughton, Aynho, and Charlton....

    ,

Oxfordshire

  • Alfred's Castle
    Alfred's Castle
    Alfred's Castle is a small Iron Age hill fort, situated at , behind Ashdown Park in the civil parish of Ashbury in Oxfordshire . It lies 2-3 km south of the Ridgeway and is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument....

     (part of Berkshire
    Berkshire
    Berkshire is a historic county in the South of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1957, and...

     until 1974),
  • Badbury Hill
    Badbury Hill
    Badbury Hill is a hill in the civil parish of Great Coxwell near Faringdon in the English county of Oxfordshire. In 1974 it was transferred from Berkshire....

     (part of Berkshire until 1974), Blewburton Hill
    Blewburton Hill
    Blewburton Hill is the site of an Iron Age hillfort located in Oxfordshire. It is described as an irregular oval fort of about 365m by 135m enclosed by a single ditch and rampart, although maps and photographs clearly show at least 4 ditches and ramparts on the Western side. The area is mostly...

     (part of Berkshire until 1974),
  • Chastleton Barrow
    Chastleton
    Chastleton is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold Hills in Oxfordshire, England, about northeast of Stow-on-the-Wold. Chastleton is in the extreme northwest of Oxfordshire, on the boundaries with both Gloucestershire and Warwickshire.-History:...

    , Cherbury Camp
    Cherbury Camp
    Cherbury Camp is the name given to the 'multi-vallate' hill-fort-like earthworks, situated at , 1 mile to the north of Charney Bassett, in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. It is joined to the village by a footpath....

     (part of Berkshire until 1974),
  • Dyke Hills,
  • Knollbury,
  • Eynsham Hall Camp
    North Leigh
    North Leigh is a village and civil parish about northeast of Witney in Oxfordshire. The parish includes the hamlet of East End, and since 1932 has also included the hamlet of Wilcote.-Early history:...

    ,
  • Hardwell Castle
    Hardwell Castle
    Hardwell Castle or Hardwell Camp is classed as an Iron Age valley fort, although, like nearby Cherbury Camp, it is not clearly in a strategic or easily defended position. It lies halfway down the scarp slope of the White Horse Hills and is tucked away in a curve, invisible from most angles...

    ,
  • Ilbury
    Deddington
    Deddington is a civil parish in Oxfordshire about south of Banbury. In scale Deddington is a village, but it has a town centre with a market place and the local football team is called Deddington Town FC.-History:...

    ,
  • Lyneham Camp
    Lyneham, Oxfordshire
    Lyneham is a village and civil parish about southwest of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.-History:Lyneham Camp or The Roundabout is a former Iron Age hill fort about northeast of the village beside the A361 road. It was excavated in 1956. About 250 yards southwest of the hill fort is Lyneham long...

    , also called The Roundabout,
  • Madmarston Hill
    Swalcliffe
    Swalcliffe is a village and civil parish about west of Banbury, Oxfordshire.-History:North of the village are the site of an Iron Age hill fort on Madmarston Hill, the site of a Roman villa at Swalcliffe Lea, and course of a former Roman Road...

    ,
  • Segsbury Camp
    Segsbury Camp
    Segsbury Camp or Segsbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort on the crest of the Berkshire Downs, near the Ridgeway above Wantage, in the Vale of White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England. It is in Letcombe Regis civil parish and is also called Letcombe Castle.The fort has extensive ditch and...

     (part of Berkshire until 1974),
  • Tadmarton Heath
    Tadmarton
    Tadmarton is a village and civil parish about west of Banbury, Oxfordshire.The Church of England parish church of Saint Nicholas is early Norman. The building was enlarged and the bell tower added in the 13th century. The tower has a ring of six bells. Four were originally cast early in the 17th...

    ,
  • Uffington Castle
    Uffington Castle
    Uffington Castle is all that remains of an early Iron Age hill fort in Oxfordshire, England. It covers about 32,000 square metres and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch with an entrance in the eastern end...

     (part of Berkshire until 1974),
  • Wittenham Clumps
    Wittenham Clumps
    Wittenham Clumps is the commonly used name for a set of small hills in the flat Thames Valley, in the civil parish of Little Wittenham in the English county of Oxfordshire....

     (part of Berkshire until 1974)

Shropshire

  • Abdon Burf
    Brown Clee Hill
    Brown Clee Hill is the highest hill in the rural English county of Shropshire, at 540 metres above sea level. It is one of the Clee Hills, and is in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.-Geography:...

  • Bayston Hill
    Bayston Hill
    Bayston Hill is a large village and civil parish in central Shropshire, England. It is south of the county town Shrewsbury and located on the main A49 road, the Shrewsbury to Hereford road....

    , Bury Ditches
    Bury Ditches
    Bury Ditches is a British Iron Age hill fort between Clun and Bishop's Castle in the Shropshire Hills of central England.- Site :The site in encompassed by Forestry Commission pine plantations but storms in the 1970s and 1980s led to the removal of woodland from the hill fort site on the crown of...

    ,
  • Caer Caradoc, Caus Castle
    Caus Castle
    Caus Castle is a hill fort and medieval castle in the civil parish of Westbury in the English county of Shropshire. It is situated up on the eastern foothills of the Long Mountain guarding the route from Shrewsbury, Shropshire to Montgomery, Powys on the border between England and Wales.- History...

    , Clee Burf
    Brown Clee Hill
    Brown Clee Hill is the highest hill in the rural English county of Shropshire, at 540 metres above sea level. It is one of the Clee Hills, and is in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.-Geography:...

  • Nordy Bank
    Nordy Bank
    For the children's novel by Sheena Porter, please see Nordy Bank .Nordy Bank is an Iron Age hill fort on Brown Clee Hill in the Shropshire Hills AONB in South Shropshire, England.- Location :The nearest village is Clee St...

  • Old Oswestry
    Old Oswestry
    thumb|250px|right|Old Oswestry hill fortOld Oswestry is a large and impressive early Iron Age hill fort in the Welsh Marches near Oswestry in north west Shropshire....

    ,
  • The Wrekin
    The Wrekin
    The Wrekin is a hill in east Shropshire, England. It is located some west of Telford, on the border between the unitary authorities of Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin. Rising to a height of above the Shropshire Plain, it is a prominent and well-known landmark, marking the entrance to Shropshire...

    ,
  • Nordy Bank
    Nordy Bank
    For the children's novel by Sheena Porter, please see Nordy Bank .Nordy Bank is an Iron Age hill fort on Brown Clee Hill in the Shropshire Hills AONB in South Shropshire, England.- Location :The nearest village is Clee St...

  • Titterstone Clee Hill
    Titterstone Clee Hill
    Titterstone Clee Hill, sometimes referred to as Clee Hill or Titterstone Clee, is a hill in the rural English county of Shropshire, rising at the summit to 533 m above sea level....


Somerset

  • Backwell Hillfort
    Backwell Hillfort
    Backwell Hillfort is an Iron Age hill fort situated approximately from Backwell in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. The hill fort was first discovered in 1933 with two of the three sides of the fort protected by a large ditch and a bank...

    , Banwell Camp
    Banwell Camp
    Banwell Camp is a univallate Iron Age hill fort in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. The hill fort is situated approximately east from the town of Banwell. Some artifacts found on the site dates back to the Bronze Age and the Stone Age. In places it is surrounded by a high bank...

    , Bat's Castle
    Bat's Castle
    Bats Castle is an Iron Age hill fort at the top of a high hill in the parish of Carhampton south south west of Dunster in Somerset, England.The site was identified in 1983 after some schoolboys found eight silver plated coins dating from 102BC to AD350....

    , Bathampton Down
    Bathampton Down
    Bathampton Down, is a flat limestone plateau in Bathampton overlooking Bath, and the River Avon, Somerset, England.There is evidence of man's activity at the site since the Mesolithic period including Bathampton Camp, an Iron Age hillfort or stock enclosure...

    , Berwick, Black Ball Camp
    Black Ball Camp
    Black Ball Camp is an Iron Age hill fort South West of Dunster, Somerset, England on the northern summit of Gallox Hill. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument....

    , Blacker's Hill
    Blacker's Hill
    Blacker's Hill Chilcompton is an Iron Age hill fort South West of Radstock, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument....

    , Brean Down
    Brean Down
    Brean Down is a promontory off the coast of Somerset standing high and extending into the Bristol Channel at the eastern end of Bridgwater Bay between Weston-super-Mare and Burnham-on-Sea....

    , Brent Knoll
    Brent Knoll Camp
    Brent Knoll Camp is an Iron Age Hill fort at Brent Knoll, from Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument , and is now in the care of the National Trust....

    , Burgh Walls Camp
    Burgh Walls Camp
    Burgh Walls Camp is a multivallate Iron Age hill fort in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. The hill fort is situated within Leigh Woods approximately north-east from the village of Long Ashton near Bristol, above the banks of the River Avon...

    , Burrington Camp
    Burrington Camp
    Burrington Camp, also known as Burrington Ham, is a Iron Age hill fort in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. The hill fort is situated in the Mendip Hills approximately south from the village of Burrington....

    , Burledge Hill
    Burledge Hill
    Burledge Hill is on the southern edge of the village of Bishop Sutton, Somerset, England. It is the site of a Site of Special Scientific Interest and an univallate Iron Age hillfort.-Site of Special Scientific Interest:...

    , Bury Castle, Somerset
    Bury Castle, Somerset
    Bury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort and 12th medieval century castle near Selworthy, Somerset, England.-Iron Age:Bury Castle was built as a promontory fort, situated over the meeting of the River Exe and River Haddeo. Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of...

    ,
  • Cadbury Camp
    Cadbury Camp
    Cadbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort in Somerset, England, near the village of Tickenham. Local legends associate it with Arthurian England and Camelot, though these may be due to confusion with the better-known Cadbury Castle, near South Cadbury some 50 miles to the south. The hill fort is well...

     (Tickenham), Cadbury Castle, Somerset
    Cadbury Castle, Somerset
    Cadbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort in the civil parish of South Cadbury in the English county of Somerset. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and associated with King Arthur.-Background:...

     (South Cadbury), Cadbury Hill
    Cadbury Hill
    Cadbury Hill is a small hill, mostly in the civil parish of Congresbury, overlooking the village of Yatton in North Somerset. On its summit stands an Iron Age hill fort, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.-Background:...

     (Congresbury), Cannington Camp
    Cannington Camp
    Cannington Camp is a Bronze Age and Iron Age hill fort near Cannington, Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.The small hill rises to above low lying land about west of the tidal estuary of the River Parrett, near the ancient port and ford at Combwich...

    , Castle Neroche
    Castle Neroche
    Castle Neroche is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle on the site of an earlier hill fort in the parish of Curland, near Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.-Location:...

    , Clatworthy Camp
    Clatworthy Camp
    Clatworthy Camp is an Iron Age hill fort North West of Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument....

    , Cleeve Toot
    Cleeve Toot
    Cleeve Toot is an Iron Age hillfort above Goblin Combe, Cleeve, Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.It is a roughly oval settlement which is approximately in length by in breadth. Approximately to the north is another, smaller settlement...

    , Compton Dundon
    Compton Dundon
    Compton Dundon is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated beside King's Sedge Moor and the Polden Hills, south of Glastonbury and north of Somerton in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 710...

    , Conygar Hillfort
    Conygar Hillfort
    Conygar Hillfort is a small multivallate Iron Age hill fort in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.The hill fort is situated approximately south from the village of Portbury near Bristol and the M5....

    , Cow Castle
    Cow Castle
    Cow Castle is an Iron Age hill fort West South West of Exford, Somerset, England within the Exmoor National Park. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument....

  • Daw's Castle
    Daw's Castle
    Daw's Castle is a sea cliff hill fort just west of Watchet, a harbour town in Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.The name comes from Thomas Dawe, who owned castell field in 1537....

    , Dinghurst fort
    Dinghurst fort
    Dinghurst fort is an Iron Age univallate hillfort south of Churchill in Somerset, England. A scarp encircles the camp, high in the east and high in the west. The fort is also surrounded by a fosse. Bones, rings, and weapons have been found inside the fort....

    , Dolebury Warren
    Dolebury Warren
    Dolebury Warren is a 90.6 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Churchill in North Somerset, notified in 1952...

    , Dowsborough
    Dowsborough
    Dowsborough Camp is an Iron Age hill fort on the Quantock Hills near Nether Stowey in Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument .-Background:...

    ,
  • Elworthy Barrows
    Elworthy Barrows
    Elworthy Barrows is an unfinished Iron Age hill fort rather than Bronze Age barrows, which has been designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument . It is located in the civil parish of Brompton Ralph near Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England.-Background:...

    , Elborough Hill
    Elborough Hill
    Elborough Hill is an univallate Iron Age hill fort situated approximately east from the small village of Hutton and south from the village of Elborough in the North Somerset district of Somerset, England...

  • Ham Hill, Somerset, Highbury Hill, Clutton
    Highbury Hill, Clutton
    Highbury Hill in Clutton, Somerset, England is the site of the earthwork remains of an Iron Age univallate hillfort. It occupies an area of woodland at the end of a narrow ridge. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument....

    ,
  • Kenwalch's Castle
    Kenwalch's Castle
    Kenwalch's Castle is probably an Iron Age hill fort that may have been converted into a Roman fortress in Penselwood, Somerset, England, East South East of Bruton at . It is situated in Castle Wood which covers its defences and interior. The latter has an area of . There is a single rampart and...

    , Kingsdown Camp
    Kingsdown Camp
    Kingsdown Camp is an Iron Age hill fort at Buckland Dinham South East of Radstock, Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.It is a univallate fort with an area of , and is approximately quadrilateral in shape. In the Iron Age or Roman period a drystone wall was constructed, possibly...

    , *Little Down
    Little Down
    Little Down is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England. The village is situated in the North Downs on the Hampshire-Berkshire and Wiltshire border. Its nearest town is Andover, approximately 7.5 miles south from the village....

  • Maes Knoll
    Maes Knoll
    Maes Knoll is an Iron Age hillfort in Somerset, England, located at the eastern end of the Dundry Down ridge, south of the city of Bristol and north of the village of Norton Malreward near the eastern side of Dundry Hill...

    , Maesbury Castle
    Maesbury Castle
    Maesbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort within the parish of Croscombe on the Mendip Hills, just north of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England. It has been listed as Scheduled Ancient Monument....

  • Norton Camp
    Norton Camp
    Norton Camp is a Bronze Age hill fort at Norton Fitzwarren near Taunton in Somerset, England.-Background:Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the first millennium BC. The reason for their emergence in Britain, and their purpose, has been a subject of...

    ,
  • Plainsfield Camp
    Plainsfield Camp
    Plainsfield Camp is a possible Iron Age earthwork on the Quantock Hills near Aisholt in Somerset, England.The so-called hill fort has several features that make it more likely to be an animal enclosure, than a defended settlement:...

    ,
  • Ruborough Camp
    Ruborough Camp
    Ruborough Camp is an Iron Age hill fort on the Quantock Hills near Broomfield in Somerset, England. The name comes from Rugan beorh or Ruwan-beorge meaning Rough Hill. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.-Background:...

    ,
  • Small Down Knoll
    Small Down Knoll
    Small Down Knoll, or Small Down Camp, is a Bronze Age hill fort near Evercreech in Somerset, England. The hill is on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, and rises to 222 m .Finds of flints indicate a prehistoric Mesolithic occupation....

    , Stantonbury Camp
    Stantonbury Camp
    Stantonbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age hillfort near Stanton Prior within the parish of Marksbury in Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.-Background:...

    , Sweetworthy
    Sweetworthy
    Sweetworthy is an Iron Age hill fort or enclosure at Luccombe, south of Porlock, Somerset, England. It is on the north-facing slope of Dunkery Hill. It has a single rampart and external ditch, enclosing . The rampart is still visible and the ditch on the east side is used as a trackway...

    ,
  • Taps Combe Camp
    Taps Combe Camp
    Taps Combe Camp is an Iron Age hill fort in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. The hill fort is situated approximately east from the village of Brockley...

    , Trendle Ring
    Trendle Ring
    Trendle Ring is an Iron Age earthwork on the Quantock Hills near Bicknoller in Somerset, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument .The word trendle means circle, so it is a tautological place name....

    , Tunley Camp
    Tunley Camp
    Tunley Camp is an univallate Iron Age hill fort situated approximately north-east from the small village of Camerton in the Bath and North East Somerset district of Somerset, England...

  • Wain's Hill, Clevedon, Worlebury Camp
    Worlebury Camp
    Worlebury Camp is the name of the place where an Iron Age hill fort once stood atop Worlebury Hill, which is north of the town of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. This fort was designed for defence, as is evidenced the number of walls and ditches around the site. Archaeologists have found...


West Sussex

  • Chanctonbury Ring
    Chanctonbury Ring
    Chanctonbury Ring is a hill fort based ring of trees atop Chanctonbury Hill on the South Downs, on the border of the civil parishes of Washington and Wiston in the English county of West Sussex. A ridgeway, now part of the South Downs Way, runs along the hill...

    , Cissbury Ring
    Cissbury Ring
    Cissbury Ring is a hill fort on the South Downs, in the borough of Worthing, and about from its town centre, in the English county of West Sussex.-Hill fort:...

  • Highdown
  • The Trundle
    Trundle (hill fort)
    Trundle is an Iron Age hill fort on Saint Roche's Hill about north of Chichester, Sussex, England. Trundle is one of just four hill forts built in Sussex. The fort was built around a Neolithic causewayed enclosure, of which very little can be seen on the ground.- History :St...

    , Chichester
    Chichester
    Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, South-East England. It has a long history as a settlement; its Roman past and its subsequent importance in Anglo-Saxon times are only its beginnings...


Wiltshire

  • Barbury Castle
    Barbury Castle
    Barbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort situated in Wiltshire, England. It is one of several such forts found along the ancient Ridgeway route. The site, which lies within the Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, has been managed as a country park by Swindon Borough Council since 1971...

    , Battlesbury Camp
    Battlesbury Camp
    Battlesbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hillfort on Battlesbury Hill in Wiltshire in South West England. Excavations and surveys at the site have uncovered various finds and archaeological data.-Background:...

    , Bincknoll Castle
    Bincknoll Castle
    Bincknol Castle or Bincknoll Camp, is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Wiltshire.The site lies on the end of a triangular promentary on the escarpment beneath the Ridgeway to the South. The steeply contoured sides offer excellent natural defences with only the level lands to...

    , Bratton Camp, Bury Camp
    Bury Camp
    Bury Camp is the site of an Iron Age multivallate hillfort located in Wiltshire. It is located on a triangular promontory of Colerne Down at the southern edge of the Cotswold Hills between two spurs of a river valley...

    ,
  • Castle Ditches
    Castle Ditches
    Castle Ditches is the site of an Iron Age trivallate hillfort located in Wiltshire. It is probable that its ancient name was Spelsbury. Its shape is roughly triangular, and follows the contours of the small hill upon which it sits. The earthworks comprise triple row of ramparts and ditches, which...

    , Castle Hill
    Castle Hill
    -Australia:* Castle Hill, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney* Castle Hill, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville-United Kingdom:* Castle Hill, Birmingham, an area in the centre of Dudley...

    , Casterley Camp
    Casterley Camp
    Casterley Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Wiltshire. The site comprises a large Iron Age/Romano-British enclosure, possibly non-defensive in function, and incomplete. The site was partially excavated in the 19th century....

    , Chisbury
    Chisbury
    Chisbury is a hamlet and prehistoric hill fort in the civil parish of Little Bedwyn in Wiltshire, England. Chisbury is about west of Hungerford and about south-east of Marlborough.-History:...

    , Chiselbury
    Chiselbury
    Chiselbury is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Wiltshire. The hillfort is sub-circular in plan, and encloses an area of approximately 10.5 acres. It is defined by an earthen rampart up to 3.6m in height and an external ditch, up to a maximum of 1.6m in depth...

    , Chisenbury Camp
    Chisenbury Camp
    Chisenbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located in Wiltshire. The site comprises a small circular 5 acre enclosure that was unfortunately levelled in 1931. A post was part excavated while being demolished...

    , Clearbury, Cley Hill
    Cley Hill
    Cley Hill a prominent hill near Warminster in Wiltshire, England.A 26.6 hectare area of chalk grassland at Cley Hill was notified as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1975.-Source:* -External links:...

    ,
  • Ebsbury,
  • Fosbury Camp
    Fosbury Camp
    Fosbury Camp, is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hillfort located in Wiltshire. The site is oval in shape, and approximately 26 acres in area...

    , Figsbury Ring
    Figsbury Ring
    Figsbury Ring is a 11.2 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1975. It is owned and managed by the National Trust....

    ,
  • Liddington Castle
    Liddington Castle
    Liddington Castle, locally called Liddington Camp, is a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age hill fort in the English county of Wiltshire....

    , Little Woodbury
    Little Woodbury
    Little Woodbury is the name of an important Iron Age archaeological site near Salisbury in the English county of Wiltshire.It was partially excavated between 1938 and 1939 by Gerhard Bersu, a German archaeologist who introduced the revolutionary approaches he had developed in continental Europe...

    ,
  • Martinshill Fort, Membury Camp
    Membury Camp
    Membury Camp, or Membury Fort, is the site of an Iron Age hillfort located on the borders of Wiltshire and Berkshire, . The site encompasses 14 hectares, and is situated in the south-western corner of a small plateau...

    ,
  • Ogbury Camp, Oldbury Castle, Old Sarum
    Old Sarum
    Old Sarum is the site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury, in England. The site contains evidence of human habitation as early as 3000 BC. Old Sarum is mentioned in some of the earliest records in the country...

    , Oliver's Castle,
  • Park Hill Camp,
  • Ringsbury Camp
    Ringsbury Camp
    Ringsbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort, thought to date from approximately the year 50BC. It is located in the civil parish of Purton in Wiltshire.-Structure:...

    , Rybury,
  • Scratchbury Camp
    Scratchbury Camp
    Scratchbury Camp is the site of an Iron Age univallate hillfort located on Scratchbury Hill, near the village and civil parish of Norton Bavant in Wiltshire...

    , Sidbury Hill
    Sidbury Hill, Wiltshire
    Sidbury Hill, or Sidbury Camp, is the site of an Iron Age bivallate hillfort located in Wiltshire. The site is sub-triangular in shape, and approximately 17 acres in area, and is constructed on the site of a neolithic settlement. The hill offers excellent defensive slopes on all sides, which have...

  • Vespasian's Camp
    Vespasian's Camp
    Vespasian's Camp is an Iron Age Hillfort in the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. It is located less than 2 miles from the older Neolithic and Bronze Age monument of Stonehenge and was built on a hill next to the Stonehenge Avenue.-Etymology:...

    ,
  • Whitesheet Castle
    Whitesheet Hill
    Whitesheet Hill is a 136.1 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, notified in 1965. As one of the most westerly areas of downland in Britain the area is noted for its chalky farmland which contains a rich variety of rare and protected fauna and flora. The hill is also...

    , Winklebury Camp,
  • Yarnbury Castle
    Yarnbury Castle
    Yarnbury Castle is a 9.1 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England, notified in 1951.-Source:* -External links:*...


Worcestershire

  • Berry Mound
    Berry Mound
    Berry Mound is an Iron Age hill fort located in the Bromsgrove district of Worcestershire, near Shirley, West Midlands, on the outskirts of Birmingham. It has been dated to the 1st or 2nd century BC....

  • Bredon Hill
    Bredon Hill
    Bredon Hill is a hill in Worcestershire, England, south-west of Evesham in the Vale of Evesham. The summit of the hill is in the parish of Kemerton and it extends over parts of eight other parishes...

  • British Camp
    British Camp
    The British Camp is an Iron Age hill fort located at the top of Herefordshire Beacon in the Malvern Hills. The fort is thought to have been first constructed in the 2nd century BC...

  • Wychbury Ring
    Wychbury Ring
    Wychbury Ring is an Iron Age hill fort located on Wychbury Hill, near Hagley, Stourbridge, on the border of West Midlands and Worcestershire in the English Midlands....




See also

  • List of hill forts in Scotland
  • List of hill forts in Wales
  • Iron Age
    Iron Age
    The Iron Age is the archaeological period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron. The early period of the age is characterized by the widespread use of iron or steel. The adoption of such material coincided with other changes in society, including differing...

    , British Iron Age
    British Iron Age
    The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron-Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, and which had an independent Iron Age culture of...

    , prehistory
    Prehistory
    Prehistory is the span of time before recorded history. Prehistory can refer to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it refers to all the time preceding human existence and the invention of writing...

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