How Hill, Downholme

A view from high moorland in low sunlight looking down on a grass-covered hill, with ditch and bank earthworks at the summit. In the distance are hills and dales as far as the eye can see. — The large Iron Age hillfort of How Hill at Downholme.

This large Iron Age univallate (single bank and ditch) fort, on an isolated hill east of Downholme village, was apparently built to control access to upper Swaledale, having sight through a break in the hills to the south, in which runs the route to the Vale of York.

For the Historic England listing click: How Hill large univallate hillfort, Downholme – 1012604 | Historic England.

For the appreciation by Tim Laurie, see the SWAAG database Settlements 1 category PDF and scroll to record no. 401, the 19^th of the 50 records in the file.

More images taken on a visit to How Hill can be seen in the SWAAG database:
Photographic category PDF – scroll to record no. 788.