Flower’s Barrow
Flower’s Barrow is an Iron Age hillfort, built over 2500 years ago, above Worbarrow Bay in Dorset on the south coast of England. Flower’s Barrow is located about 11 miles west of Swanage and about 6.25 miles south-west of Wareham.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: Iron Age hill fort in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Flower’s Barrow: a small multivallate hillfort and associated outwork on Rings Hill”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tyneham and Lulworth Castle.
Tyneham
Museum
Tyneham is a ghost village abandoned in 1943 and former civil parish, now in the parish of Steeple with Tyneham, in the Dorset district, in the south of Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck. Tyneham is situated 1 mile east of Flower’s Barrow.
Lulworth Castle
Castle
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lulworth Castle, in East Lulworth, Dorset, England, situated south of the village of Wool, is an early 17th-century hunting lodge erected in the style of a revival fortified castle, one of only five extant Elizabethan or Jacobean buildings of this type. Lulworth Castle is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Flower’s Barrow.
Worbarrow Tout
Peak
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Worbarrow Tout is a promontory at the eastern end of Worbarrow Bay on Isle of Purbeck in Dorset on the south coast of England, about 6 kilometres south of Wareham and about 16 kilometres west of Swanage.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Lulworth and Lulworth.
East Lulworth
Village
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Lulworth is a village and civil parish nine miles east of Dorchester, near Lulworth Cove, in the county of Dorset, England. The village, which consists of 17th-century thatched cottages, is dominated by the barracks of the Royal Armoured Corps Gunnery School who use a portion of the Purbeck Hills as a gunnery range.
Lulworth
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lulworth is the popular name for an area on the coast of Dorset, South West England notable for its castle and cove. However, there is no actual place or feature called simply "Lulworth", the villages are East and West Lulworth and the coastal feature is Lulworth Cove.
Stair Hole
Locality
Photo: ian freeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stair Hole is a small cove located just west of Lulworth Cove in Dorset, southern England. The folded limestone strata known as the Lulworth crumple are particularly visible at Stair Hole. Stair Hole is situated 2½ miles west of Flower’s Barrow.
Flower’s Barrow
- Categories: partial contour fort, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: East Lulworth, Purbeck District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.6248° or 50° 37′ 29″ northLongitude
-2.19413° or 2° 11′ 39″ westOpen location code
9C2VJRF4+W8OpenStreetMap ID
way 246961946OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q5462123
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Highlights include Rings Hill and Boat Knoll.
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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 “Flower’s Barrow”. Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.