Stonea Camp

Stonea Camp is an Iron Age multivallate hill fort located at Stonea near March in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Situated on a gravel bank just 2 metres above sea-level, it is the lowest hill fort in Britain.

Photo: Bob Castle, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Tourist attraction
Description: hillfort in Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Also known as: “Stonea Camp: a multivallate hillfort at Latches Fen”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Manea railway station and Church of St Wendreda.

Manea railway station

Railway station

Photo: Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Manea railway station is on the Ely–Peterborough line in the east of England and serves the village of Manea, Cambridgeshire. It is 80 miles 18 chains measured from London Liverpool Street, and is situated between Ely and March stations. Manea railway station is situated 2½ miles southeast of Stonea Camp.

Church of St Wendreda

Church

Photo: Rog Frost, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of St Wendreda is situated 2½ miles northwest of Stonea Camp.

Neale-Wade Academy

School

Neale-Wade Academy is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status in the market town of March, Cambridgeshire, England. As with many state schools, the current school was the product of a merger of a grammar school and a comprehensive school. Neale-Wade Academy is situated 2½ miles northwest of Stonea Camp.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wimblington and Manea.

Wimblington

Village

Photo: Kim Fyson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wimblington is a village in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 1700 as of the 2001 census, including Stonea and increasing to 2,211 at the 2011 Census. Wimblington is situated 2 miles west of Stonea Camp.

Manea

Village

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Manea is a village and civil parish in the District of Fenland, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2021 census was 2,810. Manea is situated 3 miles southeast of Stonea Camp.

March

Town

Photo: Tony Bennett, CC BY-SA 2.0.

March is a Fenland market town and civil parish in the Isle of Ely area of Cambridgeshire, England. It was the county town of the Isle of Ely which was a separate administrative county from 1889 to 1965. March is situated 3 miles northwest of Stonea Camp.

Stonea Camp

Categories: level terrain fort, marsh fort, archaeological site, and tourism
Location: Wimblington, Fenland District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.51596° or 52° 30′ 58″ north

Longitude

0.13216° or 0° 7′ 56″ east

Open location code

9F42G48J+9V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3385704830

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

Wikidata ID

Q7619094

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In Other Languages

“Stonea Camp” goes by many names.

French: “Stonea Camp”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Stonea Iron Age Camp and Stonea Grange Ballast Pit.

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