Blackbury Camp, Colyton

Name: Blackbury Camp
Address: English Heritage, Colyton, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 370 333 1181

#2 among attractions in Colyton

Top attraction, Historical place, Forts and castles

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Blackbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort situated in Southleigh, Devon, England. The ramparts are still relatively high, showing an unusual entrance feature. The fort occupies the end of a large ridge at some 185 metres above sea level. It was defended by a single bank and ditch, forming a roughly D-shaped enclosure approximately 200 metres long and 100 metres wide. A triangular barbican was added to the south but was never completed. The fort was probably occupied in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC by a cattle-farming community. ()

Coordinates: 50°43'31"N, 3°9'10"W

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Blackbury Camp – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Great House, Beer Quarry Caves, East Devon Way, Honiton Community College.

3.8 miE
History museum, Museum
Great House, Colyton
96 min walk • Great House on South Street in the town of Colyton, Devon, is the remnant of an historic Elizabethan mansion house built by the Yonge family, originally prominent wool merchants in the town, later Yonge baronets. It is a grade II* listed building.
2.5 miSE
Museum, Cave, Park
Beer Quarry Caves, Beer
64 min walk • Beer Quarry Caves is a man-made limestone underground complex located about a mile west of the village of Beer, Devon, and the main source in England for beer stone.
2.8 miSE
Hiking, Hiking trail
East Devon Way, Beer
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5.4 miN
Museum
Honiton Community College, Honiton
138 min walk • Honiton Community College is a comprehensive academy school located in Honiton, Devon, England. It was originally established as Honiton Secondary School in 1938, and converted to an academy in 2011.
2.4 miS
Museum
The Old Bakery, Branscombe
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5.8 miW
Architecture, Cemetery, Church
St Mary's Church, Ottery St Mary
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3.9 miSW
Specialty museum, Museum, Auditorium
Norman Lockyer Observatory, Sidmouth
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2.4 miS
Forts and castles
Berry Camp, Branscombe
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4.9 miSW
Monastery
Sidmouth Priory, Sidmouth
126 min walk • Sidmouth Priory was a priory in Devon, England. An Alien priory of Benedictine monks, a monastic cell or monastic grange dependent on Mont St Michel founded in the 11th Century through their ownership of Otterton Priory.
3.9 miE
50°42'25"N • 3°4'4"W
Seaton Jurassic, Seaton
100 min walk • Visitor center, Specialty museum, Nature and wildlife
4.1 miE
Forts and castles
Colcombe Castle, Colyton
105 min walk • Colcombe Castle was a castle or fortified house situated about a 0.5 mi north of the village of Colyton in East Devon. It was a seat of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon, whose principal seat was Tiverton Castle, about 22 miles to the north west.