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Lovely views up lewesdon hill

Welcoming and refreshments good.

Be careful here. The bridge is collapsing.

Mon - closed Tues-Thurs: 5-9 Fri - 12-2, 5-9 Sat - 12-9 Sun - 12-5 Tuesday to Saturday their daily changing menu features seasonal favourites and sharing plates plus specials from their smoker, fire pit and pizza oven. On Sundays they offer a traditional roast with meats from local butchers with lighter options including salads & sharing plates. Their delicious desserts feature classics such as Dorset apple cake and Eton Mess plus specials including their caramelised apple pavlova with burnt toffee sauce. They work with local suppliers and smoke all their our own meats. Has a beautiful outdoors seating area and beer garden.

The church dates from Norman times and the chancel arch is of Early Norman architecture. Outside is a very rare thirteenth century Dole Table, from pre-Reformation times when charitable doles of bread were distributed to the poor. Inside the south entrance is a fifteenth century carving of a king and crowned woman giving bread to children. The north and south aisle date from the fourteenth century, and there are two hagioscopes (squints) on the southern side of the chancel arch, which would have given a view of the high alter. Above the squints there is a fifteenth century doorway, which when reached by a wooden stair, would have led to the roof loft. The south doorway within the porch is also fifteenth century and features elaborate carving.

Eggardon Hill is a prehistoric hillfort, and sits at 827ft above sea level. The hill provides extensive views of the surrounding countryside and the English Channel to the south. The southern half of the hill is owned and maintained by The National Trust (which permits free public access throughout the year) with the northern part in private ownership. The large multivallate hillfort dates from the Iron Age. The surviving earthworks enclose an area of approximately 21ha in total. The defences consist of three ramparts with two medial ditches with additional outer banks to the north-west and east. Ditches and counterscarp banks provide additional protection at the staggered entrances and to the south west where there is an additional outwork. classified as a Hump (hill of any height with a drop of 100 metres or more on all sides)

At an elevation of 915 feet (279 meters), this is the highest point in Dorset, from where you can take in the beautiful surrounding countryside through the trees. For a long time, it was believed that Pilsdon Pen was the highest point in Dorset, but relatively recently, it was discovered that Lewesdon Hill stands two meters higher.

This hill takes its name from the Old English, meaning 'wheat hill.' It has a Roman fort of the Second Legion on a narrow east-west ridge, at an elevation of 210 meters.