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Botley Hill: Kent Downs: Raspit Hill [3] 207 34 TuMP: Botley Hill: Kent Downs: Detling Hill [3] 200 163 Marilyn, HuMP, TuMP: Botley Hill: Kent Downs: Junction of 3 paths. Long grass may hide true summit. Cheriton Hill [3] 188 150 Marilyn, HuMP, TuMP: Crowborough: Kent Downs: Summit on gd 15 m N of fence corner and c. 250 m NW of trig point.
The earthworks of Folkestone Castle on the summit of Castle Hill. Folkestone Castle stood on a spur of the North Downs to the north of the town of Folkestone , Kent ( grid reference TR214380 ). The Norman castle on a natural mound which existed in the late 11th and 12th centuries.
Yeavering Bell is a twin-peaked hill near the River Glen in north Northumberland, England, to the west of Wooler, and forming part of the Cheviot Hills.The summit, 1,158 feet (353 metres) above sea level, is encircled by the wall of a late-prehistoric hillfort, a tribal centre of the Votadini called in Brythonic and Old Welsh Din Gefron, from which the name stems (Old English *geafringa-).
Oldbury Camp (also known as Oldbury hill fort) is the largest Iron Age hill fort in south-eastern England. [1] It was built in the 1st century BC by Celtic British tribes on a hilltop west of Ightham, Kent, in a strategic location overlooking routes through the Kentish Weald. The fort comprises a bank and ditch enclosing an area of about 50 ...
Detling Hill is a hill forming part of the North Downs in Kent, north-east of Maidstone, and is situated in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The typical southern escarpment of the North Downs is found here, and produces dramatic views over the Low Weald. The North Downs Way passes along the hill just south of the summit.
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Cheriton Hill was the location of the discovery of the Late Spider orchid in the 19th century. At one point the number of known plants at Folkestone/Cheriton declined to just six, but with improved management of the chalk grassland by Eurotunnel and the White Cliffs Countryside Project , the population is now much healthier, estimated in 2008 ...
Blue Bell Hill is a chalk hill between Maidstone and Rochester in the English county of Kent. It overlooks the River Medway and is part of the North Downs. Settlements on the hill include the Walderslade suburb of Chatham and the villages of Blue Bell Hill and Kit's Coty. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries much of the hill was ...