Pulpit Hill Camp

Nearest town:
Aylesbury (9km NNW)
OS reference:
SP832050
OS sheet:
165
Latitude:
51° 44' 13.25 N
Longitude:
0° 47' 41.91 W
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Images

Image of Pulpit Hill Camp (Hillfort) by GLADMAN

Looking across the outer to inner rampart, from approx north.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Pulpit Hill Camp (Hillfort) by GLADMAN

To the north-east of the enclosure.........

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Pulpit Hill Camp (Hillfort) by GLADMAN

Single rampart to the south-east........

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Image of Pulpit Hill Camp (Hillfort) by GLADMAN

Double ramparts at the north-western flank.

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Image of Pulpit Hill Camp (Hillfort) by GLADMAN

The heavilly overgrown south-westwern flank....

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Articles

Pulpit Hill Camp

pure joy
pure joy Oct 2, 2004

Pulpit Hill – 26.9.2004

Unremarkable hill fort, but still worth the short (500m) walk up the hill from the small gravelly car parks at SP833046. The car park is on the north side of a minor road, not far from the A4010. This minor road (signposted Great Missenden, and others) comes off from a roundabout just north of Princes Risborough.

Nice, simple hill fort. Although it is on the crest of the hill, it’s not a steep slope, and the surrounding trees mean the view is patchy. But without the trees this would have been a very stunning and commanding position, especially on the north side.

Well signposted from the carpark. Some of the walk is steep, and uneven. All on National Trust openland.

Pulpit Hill Camp

S
Silv Aug 12, 2003

This shield-shaped contour fort is defended by a single bank and ditch on the north-west and south-west, while on the eastern side where the entrance was sited and the approach less steep, the defences were doubled. The interior area of the fort is a modest 4 acres. The woods nearby are strewn with other earthworks which may date to the Iron Age.

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