Cam Peak

Gloucestershire 3

Image by thesweetcheat

Sanctuary Jul 24, 2011 17:07:25

Does anybody know anything about Cam Peak by Dursley in Gloucestershire?
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/18647
A friend of mine visited Avebury yesterday and emailed me today to say that they had a 'Silbury Hill' up where they lived called Cam Peak! She was told as a child that it was once a volcano but apparently a lot of people believe it is not natural.
Once you open the link you are offered the option to see 8 different views of it!

thesweetcheat Jul 24, 2011 19:50:05

Replying to Sanctuary

I've sat on top of it in the rain. I think it is natural, it's an outlier from the Cotswold escarpment, connected to Cam Long Down. It's called Peaked Down on the OS map - close to Uley Bury hillfort. Rather like Picked Hill in Wiltshire in fact and I suspect the origin of the names are similar.

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/5851/

It's quite a visible landmark from the M5.

Resonox Jul 25, 2011 05:24:17

Replying to Sanctuary

Depending on it's actual age, I wouldn't say it was a volcano per se, if natural it is possible that it was the result of a volcanic upheaval, there are quite a few hills created that way after all(the majority of them...lol) ...from the 1st pic, it looks very similar to Coopers Hill...not the one of poem and legend...but the one close to Bletchingley which is visible from the M23(between Gatwick and the M25).
Apropos of nothing...some "natural" hils created by volcanic action have natural tunnels created by the bubbling and cooling effect.....and might well have been used as a ready made shelter/burial/sacricial chamber. All that said it looks a great place to visit whether natural or man-made.