Coney's Castle

Open accesson National Trust land that is open on foot at all times

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

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Coney's Castle is a hillfort in Dorset. The Albion Guide lists eleven hillforts in the county; this is one of them. It sits within Dorset National Landscape National Landscape.

Axminster Station is 7.9 km away to the west. For more of the same, Lambert's Castle and Pilsdon Pen hillfort are close by.

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