Monday, 23 May 2022

Fifty-Six - Dorset - Lewdson Hill (279m)

The climb to the top is via Lewsdon Hill Lane through ancient beech and oak woods, and walking up the beautiful, deep set footpath feels like entering Middle Earth.


Dark, ancient woodland

The summit is a grassy mound in a clearing at the top of the hill which is the site of an Iron Age hillfort.

View from the top. The sea just
visible between the trees on the horizon

In 1942. Belgian pilot Jean de Clodet tragically crashed his Spitfire on the hill in thick fog. The gap in the trees where he came gown is still here.

Memorial to Jean de Clodet