List of hillforts in England

There are over 1,350 hill forts in England. 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 Caesar's Camp, Sandy, Maiden Bower, Sharpenhoe Clappers Berkshire Caesar's Camp, Grimsbury Castle, Segsbury Camp, Walbury Hill Bristol Kingsweston Hill Buckinghamshire Aylesbury, Boddington Camp, Cheddington, Cholesbury, Danesborough Camp, Desborough Castle, Gerrards Cross, Ivinghoe, Kimbles, Medmenham Camp, Medmenham (Danesfield Camp), Seven Ways Plain, Taplow, West Wycombe Camp, Whelpley Hill. Cambridgeshire Stonea Camp, Wandlebury Hill Cheshire Bradley hill fort Eddisbury hill fort Helsby hill fort Kelsborrow Castle Maiden Castle Oakmere hill fort Woodhouses hill fort Cornwall See also: Forts in Cornwall Castle Dore, Castle an Dinas, St. Columb Major, Chûn Castle, Caer Bran Dodman Point, Gurnard's Head, Lescudjack Hill Fort Prideaux Castle, Rame Head, The Rumps, Kelly Rounds Cumbria Carrock Fell, Castle Crag Derbyshire Mam Tor Devon Beacon Castle, Belbury Castle, Berry Castle, Black Dog, Berry Castle, Weare Gifford, 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 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, Hambledon Hill, Hod Hill, Lambert's Castle Lewesdon Hill, Maiden Castle, Dorset, Pilsdon Pen, Poundbury Hill East Sussex Mount Caburn Essex Ambresbury Banks, Loughton Camp Gloucestershire Cleeve Hill, Little Sodbury, Lydney Park, Uley Bury 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, Old Winchester Hill, Oram's Arbour, St. Catherine's Hill, The Frith Herefordshire Credenhill Hertfordshire Arbury Banks, The Aubreys, Wilbury Hill, Ravensburgh Castle Kent Oldbury hillfort Lancashire Castercliff Norfolk Bloodgate Hill Iron Age Fort North Yorkshire Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications Northamptonshire Arbury Hill, Borough Hill, Rainsborough Camp, Hunsbury Hill or Danes Camp Northumberland Yeavering Bell Oxfordshire Alfred's Castle, Badbury Hill, Blewburton Hill, Chastleton Camp, Cherbury Camp, Hardwell Castle, Dyke Hills, Eynsham Hall Camp, Lyneham Camp, Uffington Castle, Wittenham Clumps Shropshire Bayston Hill, Bury Ditches, Caer Caradoc, Caus Castle, Old Oswestry, The Wrekin, Nordy Bank Somerset Bat's Castle, Bathampton Down, Black Ball Camp, Blacker's Hill, Brean Down, Brent Knoll, 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, Cow Castle Daw's Castle, Dolebury Warren, Dowsborough, Dunster, Elworthy Barrows, Ham Hill, Somerset, Kenwalch's Castle, Kingsdown Camp, Maes Knoll, Maesbury Castle Norton Camp, Plainsfield Camp, Ruborough Camp, Small Down Knoll, Solsbury Hill, Sweetworthy, Trendle Ring South Yorkshire Carl Wark, Wincobank (hill fort) Staffordshire Castle Ring West Sussex Chanctonbury Ring, Cissbury Ring The Trundle, Chichester Highdown Hill_(Hill_Fort) West Yorkshire Castle Hill, Huddersfield Barwick in Elmet Wiltshire Barbury Castle, Chislebury Camp, Clearbury Ring, Figsbury Ring, Liddington Castle, Little Woodbury, Old Sarum, Ringsbury Camp Worcestershire Bredon Hill, British Camp, Wychbury Hill

Walbury Hill, Berkshire Wittenham Clumps, Berkshire File:MellorReplicaRoundhouse.jpg Mellor, Gtr. 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

See also

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

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Cunliffe, Barry (1983), Danebury: Anatomy of an Iron Age Hillfort, Batsford Ltd, ISBN 0713409983
• 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