Worlebury Camp
Worlebury Camp is the site of an Iron Age hillfort on Worlebury Hill, north of Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, England. The fort was well defended with numerous walls, embankments and ditches around the site.Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: hillfort in North Somerset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Worle Hill Encampment”, “Worlebury Camp: a large multivallate hillfort on Worlebury Hill”, “Worlebury hill fort”, and “Worlebury Hillfort”
- Neighbors: Bristol Channel
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Holy Trinity Church and Weston College.
Holy Trinity Church
Church
Photo: Fla1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Holy Trinity Church is situated 830 feet southwest of Worlebury Camp.
Weston College
College
Photo: Ann Causer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Weston College of Further and Higher Education is a general college of further and higher education in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, England. It provides education and vocational training from age 14 to adult. Weston College is situated 2,600 feet southeast of Worlebury Camp.
Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist
Church
Photo: Mojo0306, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Parish Church of Saint John the Baptist is situated 2,300 feet southeast of Worlebury Camp.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Weston-super-Mare and Kewstoke.
Weston-super-Mare
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Weston-super-Mare is a typical English seaside resort on the shore of the Bristol Channel, in the county of Somerset, approximately 25 mi south-west of Bristol, 35 miles west of Bath and 20 miles north of Bridgwater.
Kewstoke
Hamlet
Photo: Adrian and Janet Quantock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kewstoke is a civil parish and village in Somerset, England, within the unitary authority of North Somerset, located next to the strip of coast called Sand Bay. Its population in the 2011 census was 1,690.
Uphill
Village
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Uphill is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Weston-super-Mare, in the North Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, at the southern edge of the town, on the Bristol Channel coast. Uphill is situated 2½ miles south of Worlebury Camp.
Worlebury Camp
- Categories: contour fort, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: North Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.35753° or 51° 21′ 27″ northLongitude
-2.98665° or 2° 59′ 12″ westOpen location code
9C3V9257+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 7795135806OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q8036819
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