Haddon Hill
Haddon Hill is a prominent east–west aligned ridge in west Somerset, England, close to Hartford within the civil parish of Brompton Regis. It lies on the south-eastern fringe of Exmoor National Park though is separated from the Exmoor massif itself by the…| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Wimbleball Lake and Bury Castle.
Wimbleball Lake
Reservoir
Photo: Adrian Boliston, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wimbleball Lake on Exmoor in Somerset, England, is a water supply reservoir constructed in the 1970s and completed in 1979. The 161 feet high dam is of concrete buttress construction and impounds the River Haddeo to provide a water storage capacity of some 21,000 megalitres over an area of 374 acres. Wimbleball Lake is situated 1½ miles northeast of Haddon Hill.
Bury Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bury Castle near Brompton Regis in the English county of Somerset was an Iron Age univallate hillfort which was reused with the creation of a motte after the Norman Conquest. It has been designated as a scheduled monument. Bury Castle is situated 2 miles southwest of Haddon Hill.
Church of St John
Church
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Anglican Church of St John in Skilgate, Somerset, England was built in the 14th century. It is a Grade II* listed building. Church of St John is situated 2 miles southeast of Haddon Hill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skilgate and Brompton Regis.
Skilgate
Village
Photo: Rabbi WP Thinrod, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skilgate is a village and civil parish 5 miles east of Dulverton and 8 miles west of Wiveliscombe in Somerset, England. It has a population of 96. The parish, which covers an area of 866 ha, straddles the boundary of the Exmoor National Park lying on the southern edge of the Brendon Hills, and is close to the border with Devon. Skilgate is situated 2 miles southeast of Haddon Hill.
Brompton Regis
Village
Photo: Graham Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brompton Regis is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England about 5 miles north-east of Dulverton. It is situated on the River Pulham in the Brendon Hills within the Exmoor National Park, close to Wimbleball Lake, a water supply reservoir constructed in the 1970s and completed in 1979. Brompton Regis is situated 2 miles north of Haddon Hill.
Upton
Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Riley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Upton is a village and civil parish north of Skilgate in Somerset, England. It is situated on a hill above the eastern end of Wimbleball Lake. Upton is situated 2 miles east of Haddon Hill.
Haddon Hill
- Type: Scenic viewpoint
- Description: prominent ridge in west Somerset, England
- Categories: ridge, tourism, and peak
- Location: Brompton Regis, West Somerset District, Somerset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.04739° or 51° 2′ 51″ northLongitude
-3.48291° or 3° 28′ 59″ westElevation
1,165 feet (355 metres)Open location code
9C3R2GW8+XROpenStreetMap ID
node 2802039110OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=survey_pointOpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=viewpointWikidata ID
Q18640352
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Haddon Hill”. Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.