Pilsdon Pen hillfort

Open accessNational Trust land — free to wander

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

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Pilsdon Pen hillfort is a hillfort in Dorset. It is one of eleven hillforts the Albion Guide charts in the county. It sits within Dorset National Landscape National Landscape.

For more of the same, Lambert's Castle and Coney's Castle are close by. The closest station is Crewkerne, 8.3 km to the north-east.

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