There are 1,224 hill forts in England.[1] 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.[2]
Bedfordshire [ edit ]
Berkshire [ edit ]
Bristol [ edit ]
Buckinghamshire [ edit ]
Cambridgeshire [ edit ]
Cheshire [ edit ]
Cleveland [ edit ]
Cornwall [ edit ]
Allabury,[18] St Agnes Beacon,[19] St Allen ,[19] Ash Bury,[19]
Bury Castle,[19] Bury Down, Lanreath,[19] Blacketon Rings,[19] Bosigran ,[19]
Cadson Bury ,[19] Caer Bran , Caer Dane,[19] Carn Brea ,[19] Castallack Round , Castle Dore , Castle Goff , Castle an Dinas, St. Columb Major , Castle Killibury Camp (also known as Kelly Rounds),[19] Castle Pencaire (Breage),[19] Chûn Castle , Crane Castle,[19] St Cuby's Church ,[18]
Dean Point,[19] Demelza Castle,[19] St Dennis Hill Fort ,[18] Dingerein Castle,[19] Dodman Point , St Dominick Hillfort,[19] Dunmere fort,[19] Dunterton Hillfort,[19]
Faughan,[19]
Gear fort,[19] Giant's Castle , Golden Camp,[19] Gurnard's Head ,
Hall Rings,[19] Helbury Castle,[19] Hilton Wood Castle,[19]
Kelsey Head ,[18] [19] Kenidjack Castle,[19] Kenwyn Hillfort,[19] Kestle Rings,[19]
Ladock Hillfort,[19] Largin Castle ,[19] Lescudjack Hill Fort , Lesingey Round ,[18] Liveloe,[19]
Maen Castle ,[19]
Nattlebury[19] St Newlyn East ,[19] St Newlyn East (Fiddlers Green),[19]
Padderbury ,[19] Pencarrow Rounds,[19] Penhargard Castle,[19] Polyphant Hillfort,[19] Prideaux Castle , Prospidnick Hill ,[19]
Rame Head , Redcliff Castle,[19] Resugga Castle,[19] Rough Tor ,[19] Round Wood,[19] The Rumps ,
Stowe's Pound ,[18] St Stephens Beacon,[19]
Tregarrick Tor,[18] Trereen Dinas ,[19] Tregeare Rounds,[18] [19] Trelaske hillfort,[19] Trencrom Hill ,[18] Treryn Dinas , Tresawsen (Perranzabuloe),[19] Trevelgue Head , Trewinnion ,[19] Trewardreva,[19] Treyarnon fort,[19]
Warbstow Bury ,
Yearle's Wood[19]
County Durham [ edit ]
Humbledon Hill
Maiden Castle
Shackleton Beacon
The Castles Bedburn
Cumbria [ edit ]
Allen Knott (Troutbeck),[20]
Black Castle Hill,[20]
Carrock Fell ,[20] Castle Crag (Borrowdale) ,[20] Castle Crag (Haweswater),[20] Castle Crag (Thirlmere),[20] Castle Head hillfort,[20] Castle How Hillfort,[20] Castle Howe ,[21] Castlesteads (Askham),[20] Castlesteads (Natland),[20] Croglam Castle,[20]
Dunmallard Hillfort ,[20] Dyke House fort,[20]
Kingmoor ,[20] Knipe Scar, Thrimby,[20]
Recastle Crag,[20]
Stainton Hillfort,[20] Swarthy Hill, Crosscanonby,[20]
Derbyshire [ edit ]
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
Abbotsbury Castle , Allington, Dorset ,
Badbury Rings , Banbury Hill , Bindon Hill , Buzbury Rings
Chalbury Hillfort , Coney's Castle ,
Dungeon Hill ,
Eggardon Hill ,
Flower's Barrow ,
Hambledon Hill , Hod Hill ,
Lambert's Castle , Lewesdon Hill ,
Maiden Castle ,
Pilsdon Pen , Poundbury Hill
Rawlsbury Camp [24]
Woodbury Hill , Woolsbarrow Hillfort
East Sussex [ edit ]
Gloucestershire [ edit ]
Greater Manchester [ edit ]
Hampshire [ edit ]
Hillforts in Hampshire, England
Ashleys Copse [25]
Balksbury ,[26] Beacon Hill ,[27] Bevisbury ,[28] Buckland Rings ,[29] Bullsdown Camp ,[30] Bury Hill [31]
Caesar's Camp ,[32] Castle Hill ,[33] Chilworth Ring [34]
Danebury ,[35] Dunwood Camp [36]
Frankenbury Camp ,[37] The Frith [38]
Gorley Hill [39]
Hamble Common Camp [40]
Knoll Camp [41]
Ladle Hill ,[42] Lockerley Camp [43]
Merdon Castle [44]
Norsebury Ring [45]
Old Winchester Hill ,[46] Oliver's Battery ,[47] Oram's Arbour [48]
Quarley Hill [49]
St. Catherine's Hill [50]
Tidbury Ring ,[51] Toothill Fort ,[52] Tourner Bury [53]
Whitsbury Castle ,[54] Winklebury ,[55] Woolbury [56]
Herefordshire [ edit ]
Hertfordshire [ edit ]
Lancashire [ edit ]
Leicestershire [ edit ]
Norfolk [ edit ]
North Yorkshire [ edit ]
Northamptonshire [ edit ]
Northumberland [ edit ]
Oxfordshire [ edit ]
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 [ edit ]
Abdon Burf [57]
Bayston Hill ,
The Berth, Baschurch,
Bury Ditches ,
Bury Walls ,
Burf Castle
Caer Caradoc ,
Caus Castle ,
Clee Burf ,
Caer Caradoc (Chapel Lawn) ,
Caynham Camp[58]
Ebury Hill,
Earl's Hill
Middletown Hill
Nesscliffe ,
Nordy Bank
Old Oswestry
Titterstone Clee Hill [59]
The Wrekin
Somerset [ edit ]
Backwell Hillfort ,[9] Banwell Camp ,[9] Bat's Castle , Bathampton Down , Berwick,[9] Black Ball Camp , Blacker's Hill , Brean Down , Brent Knoll , Burgh Walls Camp ,[9] Burrington Camp ,[9] Burledge Hill , Bury Castle ,
Cadbury Camp (Tickenham), Cadbury Castle (South Cadbury), Cadbury Hill (Congresbury), Cannington Camp , Castle Neroche , Clatworthy Camp , Cleeve Toot , Compton Dundon , Conygar Hillfort ,[9] Cow Castle ,
Daw's Castle , Dinghurst fort ,[9] Dolebury Warren , Dowsborough ,[9]
Elworthy Barrows , Elborough Hill ,[9]
Ham Hill , Highbury Hill ,[9]
Kenwalch's Castle , Kingsdown Camp ,
Little Down ,[9]
Maes Knoll , Maesbury Castle ,
Norton Camp ,
Plainsfield Camp ,
Ruborough Camp ,
Small Down Knoll , Stantonbury Camp ,[9] Sweetworthy ,
Taps Combe Camp ,[9] Trendle Ring , Tunley Camp [9]
Wain's Hill, Clevedon,[9] Worlebury Camp [9]
South Yorkshire [ edit ]
Staffordshire [ edit ]
Warwickshire [ edit ]
West Midlands [ edit ]
West Sussex [ edit ]
West Yorkshire [ edit ]
Wiltshire [ edit ]
Barbury Castle , Battlesbury Camp , Bincknoll Castle (unproven), Bratton Camp , Bury Camp ,
Castle Ditches , Casterley Camp , Castle Rings , Chisbury , Chiselbury , Chisenbury Camp , Clearbury Ring , Cley Hill , Codford Circle (also known as Oldbury Camp, Wilsbury Ring, and Woldsbury),
Ebsbury ,
Fosbury Camp , Figsbury Ring (unproven),
Grovely Castle ,[69]
Knook Castle ,
Liddington Castle , Little Woodbury ,
Caer Bladon (modern Malmesbury ),
Martinshill Fort, Membury Camp ,
Ogbury Camp, Oldbury Camp (Cherhill Down), Old Sarum , Oliver's Castle [70] (Roundway Down),
Park Hill Camp,
Ringsbury Camp , Rybury,
Scratchbury Camp , Sidbury Hill ,
Vespasian's Camp ,
Whitesheet Castle , Winklebury Camp,
Yarnbury Castle
Worcestershire [ edit ]
Walbury Hill , Berkshire
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