Searching Hambledon Hill Holiday Accommodation Guide for information on visiting Hambledon Hill, a lonely, grass-covered chalk hill in Dorset, is worth hiking for more than simply its enormous earthworks, which were built for defence during different periods between the Stone Age and the Roman occupation. Because its slopes are too steep for both the plow and the crowds, it is a natural haven for butterflies, notably the magnificent marbled-white, and little birds, and the vista from the summit, while being just 623 feet high, is spectacular. The simplest access is from Child Okeford, approximately half a mile to the southeast.
The trail runs through excellent beaches and is a few yards north of a layby. Another, longer route goes half a mile southeast through a beautiful, dark yew forest.
Hod Hill, a slightly lower neighbor to the southwest, includes similar earthworks and evidence of a Roman camp in the northwest corner, c. A.D. 45-63.
General Wolfe trained his forces on the eastern slopes of Hambledon before going on the attack on Quebec. In I645 near Shroton, the Dorset Clubmen, a group of 4,000 men who cared less about who won the Civil War and more about both sides stopping looting, met to convey their case. Cromwell's troops defeated them and routed them.
