List of hill forts in England

There are over 1,350 known hill forts 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 (Devon and Cornwall 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, 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 the 2nd century BC for hill forts to fall out of use. Bedfordshire Billington Camp Caesar's Camp, Sandy, Conger Hill Galley Hill Maiden Bower, Mowsbury Hill Sharpenhoe Clappers Berkshire Borough Hill, Bussock Camp, Caesar's Camp, Grimsbury Castle, Membury Camp Perborough Castle, Walbury Hill Ramsbury, Berkshire Bristol Aldebury Blaise Castle, Clifton Down Promontory Fort, Kingsweston Hill Buckinghamshire Aylesbury, Boddington Camp, Bulstrode Park Camp Cheddington, Cholesbury Camp, Church Hill, West Wycombe Danesborough Camp, Desborough Castle, Gerrards Cross, Ivinghoe, Keep hill, Kimbles, Maid's Moreton, Medmenham Camp, Medmenham (Danesfield Camp), Norbury Pulpit Hill Seven Ways Plain (Burnham Beeches), Southend Hill, States House Hillfort, Taplow, West Wycombe Camp, Whelpley Hill. Cambridgeshire Belsars Hill, Borough Hill, Sawston, Stonea Camp, Wandlebury Hill, War Ditches, Wardy Hill Cheshire Beeston Castle, Bradley hill fort, Burton Point Castle Ditch, Delamere Eddisbury hill fort Helsby hill fort Kelsborrow Castle Maiden Castle Oakmere hill fort Woodhouses hill fort Cleveland Eston Nab Cornwall See also: Forts in Cornwall and Promontory Forts of Cornwall Allabury, St Agnes Beacon, St Allen, Ash Bury, Bury Castle, Bury Down, Lanreath, Blacketon Rings, Bosigran Castle, Cadson Bury, Caer Bran, Caer Dane, Carn Brea, Castle Dore, Castle an Dinas, St. Columb Major, Castle Killibury Camp, Castle Pencaire (Breage), Chûn Castle, Crane Castle, St Cuby's Church Dean Point, Demelza Castle, St Dennis Hill Fort, Dingerein Castle, Dodman Point, St Dominick Hillfort, Dunmere fort, Dunterton Hillfort, Faughan, Gear fort, Golden Camp, Gurnard's Head, Hall Rings, Helbury Castle, Hilton Wood Castle, Kelly Rounds, Kelsey Head, Kenidjack Castle, Kenwyn Hillfort, Kestle Rings, Ladock Hillfort, Largin Castle, Lescudjack Hill Fort, Lesingey Round, Liveloe, Maen Castle, Nattlebury St Newlyn East, St Newlyn East (Fiddlers Green), Padderbury, Pencarrow Rounds, Penhargard Castle, Polyphant Hillfort, Prideaux Castle, Prospidnick Hill, Rame Head, Redcliff Castle, Resugga Castle, Rough Tor, Round Wood, The Rumps, Stowe's Pound, St Stephens Beacon, Tregarrick Tor, Trereen Dinas, Tregeare Rounds, Trelaske hillfort, Trencrom Hill, Treryn Dinas, Tresawsen (Perranzabuloe), Trevelque Head, Trewinnion, Trewardreva, Treyarnon fort, Warbstow Bury, Yearle's Wood' Cumbria Allen Knott (Troutbeck), Black Castle Hill, Carrock Fell, Castle Crag (Borrowdale), 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, Fin Cop, Mam Tor, Markland Grips, Mouselow Castle, Devon Beacon Castle, Belbury Castle, Berry Castle, Black Dog, Berry Castle, Weare Giffard, Berry Head, Berry camp, Berry's Wood, Blackbury Camp, Blackdown Rings, Bolt Tail, Boringdon Camp, Bremridge Wood, Brent Hill, Brent Tor, Burley Wood, Burridge Fort Cadbury Castle, Devon, Capton, Castle Close, Castle Dyke, Little Haldon, Castle Head, Devon, Castle Hill, Torrington, Clovelly Dykes, Cotley Castle, Cranbrook Castle, Cranmore Castle, Cunnilear Camp Denbury Hill, Dewerstone, Dolbury, Dumpdon Hill, Embury Beacon Halwell Camp, Hawkesdown Hill, Hembury, Hembury Castle, Tythecott, High Peak, Devon, Hillsborough, Devon, Holbury, Holbeton, Holne Chase Castle, Huntsham castle Kentisbury Down, Killerton, Knowle Hill Castle, Lee Wood Membury Castle, Milber Down, Mockham down, Musbury Castle, Myrtlebury Newberry Castle, Noss, Dartmouth, Peppercombe Castle, Posbury, Prestonbury castle Raddon Top, Roborough Castle, Seaton Down, Shoulsbury castle, Sidbury Castle, Slapton Castle, Smythapark, Stanborough, Stockland Castle, Stoke Hill Voley Castle, Wasteberry Camp, Wind Hill, Windbury Head, Woodbury Castle, Woodbury, Dartmouth, Wooston Castle, Yarrowbury, Yellowberries Copse Dorset Abbotsbury Castle, Allington, Dorset, Badbury Rings, Bindon Hill Coney's Castle, Eggardon Hill, Flower's Barrow, Hambledon Hill, Hod Hill, Lambert's Castle, Lewesdon Hill, Maiden Castle, Dorset, Pilsdon Pen, Poundbury Hill East Sussex Hollingbury Mount Caburn Essex Ambresbury Banks Loughton Camp Gloucestershire Abbey Camp, Bloody Acre, Bury Hill, Winterbourne, Camp Hill, Thornbury, Cleeve Hill, Crickley Hill, Dyrham Camp, Elberton Camp, Horton Camp Little Sodbury, Lydney Park Knole Park Camp Solsbury Hill The Castle, Tytherington, Tog Hill, Cold Ashton, Uley Bury Welshbury Hill Greater Manchester Mellor hill fort Hampshire Ashleys Copse, Balksbury, Beacon Hill, Bevisbury, Buckland Rings, Bullsdown Camp, Bury Hill, Caesar's Camp, Castle Hill, Chilworth Ring, Danebury, Dunwood Camp, Frankenbury Camp, Gorley Hill, Hamble Common Camp, Knoll Camp, Ladle Hill, Lockerley Camp, Merdon Castle, Norsebury Ring Old Winchester Hill, Oliver's Battery, Oram's Arbour, Quarley Hill, St. Catherine's Hill, Tidbury Ring, The Frith, Toothill Fort Tourner Bury, Whitsbury Castle, Winklebury, Woolbury Herefordshire British Camp Capler Camp Credenhill Croft Ambrey Dinedor Hill Ivington Camp Midsummer Hill Poston Camp Risbury Camp Sutton Walls Hill Fort Wapley Hill Hertfordshire Arbury Banks The Aubreys, Ravensburgh Castle Wilbury Hill Kent Bigbury Camp Oldbury hillfort Lancashire Castercliff Warton Crag Leicestershire Beacon Hill Breedon hill fort Burrough Hill Norfolk Bloodgate Hill Iron Age Fort Warham Camp North Yorkshire Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications Sutton Bank Ingleborough Northamptonshire Arbury Hill, Borough Hill, Hunsbury Hill or Danes Camp Rainsborough Camp, Northumberland Callaly Castle Castle Hill Camp Knowe Clinch Castle Ewe Hill Gibbs Hill Great Hetha Greaves Ash Humbleton Hill Little Cleugh Lordenshaws Old Fawdon Hill Prendwick Chesters West Hill Yeavering Bell Oxfordshire Alfred's Castle (part of Berkshire until 1974), Badbury Hill (part of Berkshire until 1974), Blewburton Hill (part of Berkshire until 1974), Chastleton Barrow, Cherbury Camp (part of Berkshire until 1974), Dyke Hills, Knollbury, Eynsham Hall Camp, Hardwell Castle, Ilbury, Lyneham Camp, also called The Roundabout, Madmarston Hill, Segsbury Camp (part of Berkshire until 1974), Tadmarton Heath, Uffington Castle (part of Berkshire until 1974), Wittenham Clumps (part of Berkshire until 1974) Shropshire Abdon Burf Bayston Hill, Bury Ditches, Caer Caradoc, Caus Castle, Clee Burf Caer Caradoc (Chapel Lawn) Nordy Bank Old Oswestry, The Wrekin, Nordy Bank Titterstone Clee Hill Somerset See also: List of hill forts and ancient settlements in Somerset Backwell Hillfort, Banwell Camp, Bat's Castle, Bathampton Down, Berwick, Black Ball Camp, Blacker's Hill, Brean Down, Brent Knoll, Burgh Walls Camp, Burrington Camp, Burledge Hill, Bury Castle, Somerset, Cadbury Camp (Tickenham), Cadbury Castle, Somerset (South Cadbury), Cadbury Hill (Congresbury), Cannington Camp, Castle Neroche, Clatworthy Camp, Cleeve Toot, Compton Dundon, Conygar Hillfort, Cow Castle Daw's Castle, Dinghurst fort, Dolebury Warren, Dowsborough, Elworthy Barrows, Elborough Hill Ham Hill Hillfort, Highbury Hill, Clutton, Kenwalch's Castle, Kingsdown Camp, *Little Down Maes Knoll, Maesbury Castle Norton Camp, Plainsfield Camp, Ruborough Camp, Small Down Knoll, Stantonbury Camp, Sweetworthy, Taps Combe Camp, Trendle Ring, Tunley Camp Wain's Hill, Clevedon, Worlebury Camp South Yorkshire Carl Wark, Wincobank (hill fort) Staffordshire Castle Ring Castle Hill Old Fort, Stonnall Bury Bank Birth Hill The Wall Hillfort Castle ring Bury Ring Surrey Hascombe Hill Holmbury Hill West Sussex Chanctonbury Ring, Cissbury Ring Highdown The Trundle, Chichester West Yorkshire Barwick in Elmet Castle Hill, Huddersfield Wiltshire Barbury Castle, Battlesbury Camp, Bincknoll Castle currently unproven, Bratton Camp, Bury Camp, Castle Ditches, Castle Hill, Casterley Camp, Castle Rings, Chisbury, Chiselbury, Chisenbury Camp, Clearbury, Cley Hill, Codford Circle (also known as Oldbury Camp, Wilsbury Ring, and Woldsbury). Ebsbury, Fosbury Camp, Figsbury Ring, Grovely castle Knook Castle Liddington Castle, Little Woodbury, Caer Bladon (modern Malmesbury) Martinshill Fort, Membury Camp, Ogbury Camp, Oldbury Castle, Old Sarum, Oliver's Castle, Park Hill Camp, Ringsbury Camp, Rybury, Scratchbury Camp, Sidbury Hill Vespasian's Camp, Whitesheet Castle, Winklebury Camp, Yarnbury Castle Worcestershire Berry Mound Bredon Hill British Camp Wychbury Ring

Walbury Hill, Berkshire Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire) File:MellorReplicaRoundhouse.jpg Mellor, Greater Manchester, replica roundhouse Bickerton Hill, Cheshire Castle an Dinas, Cornwall Castle Crag, Cumbria Danebury Ring Arbury Hill The Wrekin Cadbury Castle, Somerset Chanctonbury Ring Bredon Hill Carl Wark, Peak District Wychbury Hill Old Sarum, by John Constable Hembury Hillfort Poundbury Eggardon Hill Eston Nab, North Yorkshire Beacon Hill, Hampshire British Camp, Herefordshire Bratton Camp and Cley Hill

See also

• List of hill forts in Scotland
• List of hill forts in Wales
• Iron Age, British Iron Age, prehistory

References

Bibliography

• Cunliffe, Barry (1983). Danebury: Anatomy of an Iron Age Hillfort. Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-0998-3 
• Forde-Johnston, J (1976). Hillforts of the Iron Age in England and Wales: a survey of the surface evidence. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0-85323-381-0 

External links

• Hillforts Atlas Project – a crowd-sourced project to map the hillforts of Britain and Ireland