Arbury Hill
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Arbury Hill, at Template:Convert, is the joint highest point in the English county of Northamptonshire.[1][2] It is Template:Convert southwest of the town of Daventry.
The slopes of Arbury Hill are a drainage divide between three major river catchment areas, with the Nene to the north, east and south, the Cherwell (a tributary of the Thames) to the south-west and the Leam (a tributary of the Severn) to the west and north-west.[2] There are fine views with Rugby and Coventry visible to the northwest and Northampton to the east. The River Nene rises in a swampy hollow on the northwestern flanks of the hill.[3]
History
On the summit of Arbury Hill there are the vestiges of an Iron Age Fort (Grid reference Script error: No such module "Ordnance Survey coordinates".), although its date and origin are disputed. The remains are in the form of a square ditch and embankment about 200 metres (yards) across.[4] Although little trace remains of this fort, the outer bank encloses an area of about Template:Convert. It is mentioned as one of the boundary marks in a land grant of Edmund the Elder, as being the place where the three parishes of Badby, Dodford and Everdon meet.[3]
The summit of Arbury Hill was one in a series of points used for triangulation in 1784 to determine the exact diameter and magnitude of the Earth, in a sequence of measurements undertaken by the British Government.[5] There is a Triangulation station on the summit.[6]
There is a motor-cross track on the east side and top of the hill that is used for competitions about three times a year. The soil is clayey, the site is steeply sloping and there are plenty of elevation changes, some off camber turns and a few smallish jumps.[7]
Gallery
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The headwater of the River Nene, on the north east slope of Arbury Hill in 2008
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The southern side of the hill in 2008
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- ↑ 'Badby', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire, Volume 3: Archaeological Sites in North-West Northamptonshire (London, 1981), pp. 7-12. British History Online, accessed 25 October 2017.
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