Bowcombe Down

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Bowcombe Down
Hampshire
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Isle of Wight
Summit: 440 feet SZ467875
50°41’8"N, 1°20’25"W

Bowcombe Down is a broad hill rising to 440 feet above sea level extending in a gentle ridge north-east to south-west between Carisbrooke and Bowcombe on the Isle of Wight in Hampshire.

The down is home to a listed historical site that contains a Bronze Age barrow and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, which together are a scheduled ancoent monument.[1]

The start of the Tennyson Trail as it leaves Carisbrooke westwards climbs up Bowcombe Down.

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References

  1. National Heritage List 1015624: A Bronze Age barrow and Anglo-Saxon cemetery on Bowcombe Down, south-east of Apesdown (Scheduled ancient monument entry)