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Burrington Camp

Open accesson open access land, where the right to roam applies

Earthworks onlybanks, ditches and platforms — read the ground, not walls

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Burrington Camp is a hillfort in Somerset. The Albion Guide maps 29 hillforts in the county; this is one of them. It sits within the Mendip Hills National Landscape.

Yatton Station is 9 km away to the north-west. Dolebury Camp and Westbury Camp are among the hillforts within 7.8 km.

More at the National Heritage List entry

More places to visit near Burrington Camp

Photo of the Mendip Hills, a National Landscape in Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Mendip Hills

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Cheddar

A limestone upland riddled with caves and gorges, an easy high point, and old lead-mining country on top

Photo of Burrington Combe, a gorge near Cheddar in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Burrington Combe

Gorge near Cheddar

Rocky Mendip valley of tumbled limestone crags whose 'Rock of Ages' cleft is said to have inspired the hymn.

0.5 km S

Photo of Cheddar Gorge, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Cheddar Gorge

SSSI near Cheddar

Britain's biggest gorge, a mile of grey limestone cliffs in the Mendips with famous show caves cut into the rock below

2.6 km S

Photo of Cheddar Gorge, a gorge in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, south west England.Iconic

Cheddar Gorge

Gorge near Cheddar

Britain's largest gorge, a 400-foot limestone canyon cut through the Mendips with a cliff-edge road, show caves and clifftop walks.

4.9 km S

Photo of Cheddar, a village in Somerset, south west England.Highlight

Cheddar

Village

Mendip village at the mouth of its famous gorge, cheese-making since the twelfth century and gateway to the show caves.

5.5 km S · Somerset

Photo along the Monarch's Way, a 625-mile long-distance path running from Worcester to Shoreham-by-Sea, England.Highlight

Monarch's Way

Long-distance path

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

6.2 km E · spans 14 counties