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Uleybury Hillfort
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Julian
March 14, 2019
If you can only do one walk while you're here, go up to Uley Bury. The views, in all directions (since you're walking all the way round a hill top fort) are stupendous. You can find the footpath above from behind the Church just up the road; or you can drive up Crawley Hill and park up at the top, but spaces can be limited. Glorious is a word that is often over-used, but this walk is genuinely glorious. Taking in almost the entire Uley Bury, with its stupendous views in every direction, it also dips you steeply down, and steeply up onto Downham Hill; with equally stupendous views, and a very interesting history. Once you're up there, you have one simple decision to make. Clockwise, or anti-clockwise. Each has its merits, so it’s down to you. We like to walk anti-clockwise, then divert off to Downham Hill and return to complete the circuit. So, if you want to follow our route, head anti-clockwise until you see a footpath heading downhill - actually really steeply downhill. Follow your nose downhill, until you come out by the kennels at Hydegate Pet Resort. Say hello to the old, retired, horses in the field, then take the road signposted to Cam, and then after 200yds take the path on the left, uphill to the top of the Downham Hill (having first inspected the notices about how it was used as a smallpox isolation hospital). At the top of Downham, enjoy more glorious views in all directions, then head back down in the direction you came up from, but head steeply down through the bracken. Follow your route back, but as you start to climb back up Uley Bury, rather than taking the path you came steeply down, take the green lane to the right instead. Follow this up the hill through the woods, and one long zigzag takes you up through the steep grassy slopes to the top of the Fort, just a bit further along from where you descended off it. Continue walking anti-clockwise around the Bury back to where you started.
If you can only do one walk while you're here, go up to Uley Bury. The views, in all directions (since you're walking all the way round a hill top fort) are stupendous. You can find the footpath above from behind the Church just up the road; or you can drive up Crawley Hill and park up at the top, b…
Daisy & Tom
May 2, 2022
A big walk through the valleys to get a superb view of the landscape all around the river Severn from what must’ve been a pretty impregnable fort. Humbling stuff.
Mark And Marilyn
June 26, 2020
Take a breezy step along the Cotswold Way (well, it’s a hill climb really) to Uley Bury Iron Age Hill Fort. It starts from behind the church in Uley village. You can admire how our forebears made the most of the natural defences and strategic outlook provided by the escarpment – adding a double line of grassy ramparts for good measure. Probably occupied from 300BC to AD100, the vast 32-acre site, some 750ft up, commands views far over the surrounding landscape – great today for clearing the mind and rebalancing the soul.
Take a breezy step along the Cotswold Way (well, it’s a hill climb really) to Uley Bury Iron Age Hill Fort. It starts from behind the church in Uley village. You can admire how our forebears made the most of the natural defences and strategic outlook provided by the escarpment – adding a double lin…
Lokalizacja
Crawley Hill
Uley, England