Holmbury Hill
Holmbury Hill is a wooded area of 261 metres above sea level in Surrey, England, and the site of an Iron Age-period hillfort. The Old Saxon word "holm" can be translated as hill and "bury" means fortified place.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mullard Space Science Laboratory and Hurtwood House.
Mullard Space Science Laboratory
University
Photo: John Barrett, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory is the United Kingdom's largest university space research group. MSSL is part of the Department of Space and Climate Physics at University College London, one of the first universities in the world to conduct space research.
Hurtwood House
School
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hurtwood House is an independent, co-educational boarding school and sixth form for pupils aged 15–19, near to the market town of Dorking, in Surrey, England.
Joldwynds
Dwelling
Joldwynds is a modernist style house in Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, England, designed by architect Oliver Hill for Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene. Completed in 1932, it is a Grade II listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Holmbury St Mary and Sutton Abinger.
Holmbury St Mary
Village
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Holmbury St Mary is a village in Surrey, England centered on shallow upper slopes of the Greensand Ridge. Its developed area is a nucleated village, 4.5 miles southwest of Dorking and 8 miles southeast of Guildford.
Sutton Abinger
Hamlet
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abinger is a large, well-wooded and mostly rural civil parish that lies between the settlements of Dorking, Shere and Ewhurst in the district of Mole Valley, Surrey, England.
Friday Street
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Slessor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Friday Street is a hamlet on the gentle lower north slope of Leith Hill in Surrey, England. It is in a wooded headwater ravine, just to the south of Wotton and the A25, a single rather than dual carriageway road, running between Guildford to the west and Dorking to the east.
Holmbury Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 856 feet
- Description: woodland in Surrey, England
- Category: landform
- Location: Shere, Guildford District, Surrey, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.17508° or 51° 10′ 30″ northLongitude
-0.42212° or 0° 25′ 20″ westElevation
856 feet (261 metres)Open location code
9C3X5HGH+25OpenStreetMap ID
node 267564784OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
“Holmbury Hill” goes by many names.
- German: “Holmbury Hill”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Somerset Hill and Heathside.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Holmbury Camp: a small multivallate hillfort north of Three Mile Road and Mullard SSL.
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