Prestonbury Castle

Drewsteignton, Devon

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On walking routes: Teign Gorge Classic Circuit, Castle Drogo

Main image: Drewsteignton, The Fingle Bridge Inn - 303 metres from location - image by Nigel Cox (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

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Prestonbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort located on a hilltop near Drewsteignton, some 240 metres above sea level. It stands overlooking the Teign Valley and is close to two other hill forts, about 2 km away.

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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“Chageford in the dirt--O good Lord!”
Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Dartmoor, 1907

Also on Our DartmoorRound cairn near Longstone Hill — A round cairn 13 m across on the lower north-west slope of Yes Tor, the easternmost outlier of the Longstone Hill cairn cluster, with shell hollows from military training.

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