WebBarbury Castle is a scheduled hillfort 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. It is situated on Barbury Hill, a local vantage point, which, under ideal …

WebBritish Camp is an Iron Age hill fort located at the top of Herefordshire Beacon in the Malvern Hills.The hill fort is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument and is owned and maintained by Malvern Hills Conservators.The fort is thought to have been first constructed in the 2nd century BC. A Norman castle was built on the site.. The extensive earthworks …

WebMam Tor is a 517 m (1,696 ft) hill near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England.Its name means "mother hill", so called because frequent landslips on its eastern face have resulted in a multitude of "mini-hills" beneath it. These landslips, which are caused by unstable lower layers of shale, also give the hill its alternative name of Shivering …

WebUffington Castle is an early Iron Age (with underlying Bronze Age) univallate hillfort 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 western end.

WebOld Sarum, in Wiltshire, South West England, is the now ruined and deserted site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury.Situated on a hill about two miles (three kilometres) north of modern Salisbury near the A345 road, the settlement appears in some of the earliest records in the country.It is an English Heritage property and is open to the public.

WebBuilt in 1138 by Henri de Blois, Bishop of Winchester, grandson of William the Conqueror, Farnham castle became the home of the Bishops of Winchester for over 800 years. The original building was demolished by Henry II in 1155 after 'the Anarchy' and then rebuilt in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. In the early 15th century, it was the residence of …

WebThere are 1,224 hill forts in England. Although some originate in the Bronze Age, the majority of hill forts in Britain were constructed during the Iron Age (about 8th century BC to the Roman conquest of Britain).There was a trend in …

WebOld Carthusians Football Club is an association football club whose players are former pupils of Charterhouse School in Godalming, Surrey, England.The club was established in 1876 and won the FA Cup in 1881, as well as the FA Amateur Cup in 1894 and 1897. The club currently plays in the Arthurian League and have won the 'double' of league and …

WebFarnham is a market town in Surrey, England, within the borough of Waverley. The town is 36 miles (58 km) southwest of London in the extreme west of Surrey, adjacent to the border with Hampshire.By road, Guildford is 11 miles (17 km) to the east and Winchester a further 28 miles (45 km) along the same axis as London. Farnham is the largest town in …

WebThe name Addlestone probably means "Attel's Denu": the valley belonging to a Saxon named Attel.. Addlestone, historically called Atlesdon or Atlesford, was a part of Chertsey ecclesiastical parish, the basic unit of civil administration.. In 1241 the place was listed as "Attelsdene" and by 1610 John Speed's map shows "Adleston", halfway between named …