Welshbury Hill
Welshbury Hill is an Iron Age hill fort near Mitcheldean in Gloucestershire, England. It is thought to have been built by Celts and dates back to 1600 BC.- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: hillfort in Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Welshbury”, “Welshbury Hill Fort”, “Welshbury hillfort and associated earthworks”, and “Westbury”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Anthony’s Well and Church of St Mary the Virgin, Flaxley.
St Anthony’s Well
Spring
Photo: Clint Mann, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Anthony’s Well is a spring, which is situated 2,500 feet west of Welshbury Hill.
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Flaxley
Church
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Flaxley is situated 3,600 feet east of Welshbury Hill.
Flaxley Abbey
Building
Photo: Jennifer Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Flaxley Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in England, now a Grade I listed English country house and private residence, near the village of Flaxley in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. It is the former seat of the Crawley-Boevey Baronets. Flaxley Abbey is situated 4,100 feet east of Welshbury Hill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Flaxley and Pope’s Hill.
Flaxley
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Flaxley is a small settlement and former civil parish, now in the parish of Blaisdon, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. It is located in between the larger villages of Westbury-on-Severn and Mitcheldean.
Pope’s Hill
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pope's Hill is a hill and a small village situated in the east of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire within the parish of Littledean. The hill is 12 miles south west of Gloucester and 3 miles east of Cinderford.
Abenhall
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abenhall is a small village in the civil parish of Mitcheldean, in the Forest of Dean district of the county of Gloucestershire, England. It lies on the road between Mitcheldean and Flaxley in the Forest of Dean.
Welshbury Hill
- Categories: partial contour fort, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Blaisdon, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.83744° or 51° 50′ 15″ northLongitude
-2.46938° or 2° 28′ 10″ westOpen location code
9C3VRGPJ+X6OpenStreetMap ID
way 29958958OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q7982046
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