Flower’s Barrow

Flower's Barrow is an Iron Age hillfort, built over 2,500 years ago on Rings Hill, above Worbarrow Bay in Dorset on the south coast of England. It is located about 11 miles west of Swanage and about 6.25 miles southwest of Wareham.

Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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

Photo: Tuuraan78, CC BY 3.0.

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

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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, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.6248° or 50° 37′ 29″ north

Longitude

-2.19413° or 2° 11′ 39″ west

Open location code

9C2VJRF4+W8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 246961946

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

Wikidata ID

Q5462123

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