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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Memorial to Jean de Clodet |
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