This is the site of an Iron-Age Hillfort which covers around 17 acres. It is just one of several such sites in Wiltshire, but differs somewhat in that it occupies an unusual location built upon a segment of chalk rising to around 775 feet above the landscape.
Apart from its interest as a pre-historic fortification, most latterly the site has become especially known for associations with sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, and therefore attracts hundreds of visitors.
Cley Hill sits on the vast Salisbury Plain, a place of great natural beauty with an abundance of flora and fauna.
a Historic Market Town in the county of Wiltshire
(8.1 miles, 13.0 km, direction N)Trowbridge is a historic town crammed with attractive stone buildings. It originated as a settlement along the Biss and flourished from the wool and weaving trades and from these periods there remain many magnificent merchant houses...
a Historic City in the county of Somerset
(13.0 miles, 21.0 km, direction NW)Bath is an elegant city famous for its beautiful Georgian architecture and its Roman attractions from which it got it's name. The traveller James Boswell who visited the city.....
a Historic Market Town in the county of Dorset
(13.9 miles, 22.3 km, direction S)Shaftsbury is Dorset's only hill-top town, with its long history and good views it is particularly attractive to tourists...
a Picturesque Village in the county of Wiltshire
(15.3 miles, 24.6 km, direction N)Gatherings of graceful medieval houses line the streets of Lacock..
in the county of Somerset
(17.7 miles, 28.5 km, direction W)Wells, situated at the foot of the picturesque mendip hills, is most certainly one of England's most delightful cathedral cities...
All towns in Wiltshire
On entering the great grounds of Longleat House through the entrance known as "Heaven's Gate" visitors are immediately struck by.....
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A tradition exists that Nunney Castle's sole pig was subject to daily torture when the castle came under siege in 1645 during the.....
Designed by Henry Hoare II, Stourhead is one of England's most picturesque landscape gardens with classic temples and palladian.....
In 1383, the then Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Thomas Hungerford had to be pardoned for building Farleigh Hungerford.....
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