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<< Our Photo Pages >> Dudsbury Camp - Hillfort in England in Dorset

Submitted by formicaant on Thursday, 16 September 2010  Page Views: 20682

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Dudsbury Camp Alternative Name: Dudsbury Rings, Dudsbury Hill Fort
Country: England County: Dorset Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Bournemouth  Nearest Village: West Parley
Map Ref: SZ077979  Landranger Map Number: 195
Latitude: 50.780627N  Longitude: 1.89215W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Dudsbury Camp
Dudsbury Camp submitted by formicaant : the western rampart. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Dorset. This is a form of promontory hillfort which is above a bend in the river Stour. The most substantial earthworks are two sets of banks and ditches north of the interior. These are visible from the public footpath but are on private land.

Relatively easy to access down a track to the guides camp. Very nearby (5 minute walk) on the corner of a cul de sac called Druids Close(!) is a fairly well preserved round barrow, referred to on maps as Parley Barrow. Also nearby just off golf links road (in lone pine drive) is Ralphs Barrow, large round barrow in excellent condition but unfortunately in someones back garden! Easily visible from the road.

Note: East Dorset residents fear 900 green belt homes in the close vicinity, distinctly undemocratic manouverings going on, see comments
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Dudsbury Camp
Dudsbury Camp submitted by Gedv1 : The eastern first ring bank in cross section at Dudsbury Hill Fort (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SZ0797 : Girl Guide Building at Dudsbury Rings by Mike Smith
by Mike Smith
©2007(licence)
SZ0797 : Guide Hut, Dudsbury, Dorset by Stuart Buchan
by Stuart Buchan
©2005(licence)
SZ0797 : Dudsbury Rings by Mike Smith
by Mike Smith
©2007(licence)
SZ0797 : Paddock at Dudsbury by Mike Smith
by Mike Smith
©2007(licence)
SZ0797 : Grazing, West Parley by JThomas
by JThomas
©2022(licence)

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 776m NNE 15° Parley Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SZ07909865)
 780m NW 320° Dudsbury Hill Tumuli* Round Barrow(s) (SZ072985)
 1.3km NE 45° Ralph's Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SZ086988)
 1.7km NW 325° Ferndown Town Common* Round Barrow(s) (SZ067993)
 2.2km SSW 208° Two Barrow Heath Barrow Cemetery (SZ0663495924)
 3.3km NNE 33° Trickett's Cross Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SU095007)
 3.8km NW 311° Bowl round barrow just outside Stapehill community centre Dorset Barrow Cemetery (SU0482700373)
 4.0km SSW 210° Poole Timber Circle Timber Circle (SZ057944)
 4.8km ENE 73° Hurn Forest Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SZ123993)
 5.1km SE 130° Holdenhurst Long Barrow* Long Barrow (SZ116946)
 5.3km S 178° Robin Hood's Barrow (Bournemouth) Round Barrow(s) (SZ07939256)
 5.4km S 189° Fern Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SZ069926)
 5.5km E 97° Sopley Common Tumulus* Round Barrow(s) (SZ132972)
 5.6km E 100° Ramsdown Plantation / Sopley Common* Round Barrow(s) (SZ132969)
 6.3km SSW 205° Parkstone Standing Stone (Menhir) (SZ050922)
 6.5km NE 51° Barnsfield Heath (North)* Round Barrow(s) (SU127020)
 6.5km NNE 23° Lions Hill Enclosure* Misc. Earthwork (SU103039)
 7.0km ESE 110° St Catherine's Hill (Christchurch)* Barrow Cemetery (SZ143955)
 7.3km NNW 343° Holt Heath* Round Barrow(s) (SU055049)
 8.1km E 97° St Michael's Well (Sopley)* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SZ1573596865)
 8.2km WNW 303° Bakers Dozen* Modern Stone Circle etc (SU008024)
 8.5km WNW 286° Pamphill* Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature (ST995003)
 8.9km NNW 331° Colebarrow* Hillfort (SU033057)
 9.2km W 279° The Bearstone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SY986993)
 9.2km NE 36° Watchmoor Wood* Round Barrow(s) (SU131054)
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Re: Dudsbury by Anonymous on Sunday, 02 March 2014
I am looking for a map of the listed area at Castle Ring Dudsbury. Ae you able to help or advise. Thank you Paul
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    Re: Dudsbury by Runemage on Sunday, 02 March 2014
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    Hello Paul,
    Not sure what you mean by 'the listed area' but if you look at the top of the page we have a lot of square icons called 'external links' If you hover your mouse over each one, a description of what it does will appear. There are maps and aerial views which should give you a good start.
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    Re: Dudsbury by Andy B on Sunday, 02 March 2014
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    If you mean what is the extent of the scheduled ancient monument you can get this from Magic Map. Unfortunately our direct link has stopped working as they updated their site. Here is the link to Dudsbury
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520 houses to be built in West Parley on the Dudsbury Heights and New Road fields by Anonymous on Thursday, 26 January 2012
520 houses to be built in West Parley on the Dudsbury Heights and New Road fields (green belt)

East Dorset District Council have published plans for green belt housing in West Parley..It is a major change from last time, worse than expected. Please see our greenbelt fight page for the full story.

http://www.keepwestparleygreen.org.uk/greenbeltfight.shtml

Jacqui
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dudsbury rings by jacquibw on Wednesday, 27 July 2011
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Having moved here recently Ive only just found time to go to find the exterior of these fort rings, I suggest having lunch at The Dudsbury, 2 meals for £10 deal very good, nice surroundings, ontop of the castle rings,then finding the public footpath as yu come out of the restaurant opposite the carpark is signposted thru a gate, there then is a small part of the rings, if yu keep bearing left, and this in turn leads to the middle of the girl guides private camp!Steep banks overgrown with trees, yu can just see the river bending at the bottom!
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Further details from West Parley Residents Association by Andy B on Thursday, 16 September 2010
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July 2010 - Green Belt Fight Starts Again.

Just when the new Government has abolished the intrusive and much disliked Regional Spatial Strategy, which dictated 2400 houses in the green belt fields at West Parley, Corfe Mullen and Wimborne, it has emerged that the East Dorset District Council is still planning to build there.

http://www.keepwestparleygreen.org.uk/greenbeltfight.shtml

You can see one of the housing areas is right up against the hillfort
http://www.keepwestparleygreen.org.uk/images/rss2big.jpg
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Statement from the Campaign to Protect Rural England by Andy B on Thursday, 16 September 2010
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COUNCIL TO RENEGE ON GREEN BELT PROTECTION ?
EAST DORSET HOUSES IN GREEN BELT ?

It has just been learned that under a blanket of apparent secrecy, East Dorset Council spent upwards of
£150,000 with consultants in the last year on detailed plans for Green Belt housing. Nothing has
appeared about it on the Council’s website or in their newsletters, and even now the public is not
allowed access to this work.

Residents in Wimborne, Corfe Mullen, West Parley and Verwood – all threatened by these plans –
will be shocked at the news. A Consortium of 7 Action Groups organised demonstrations in
Bournemouth Square, County Hall and finally a Rally at Parliament, addressed by MPs. These
expressions of democratic outrage forced the East Dorset and County Councils to change their
development policies. In August 2006, the Council voted unanimously to oppose building in the S.E.
Dorset Green Belt, and Council statements have stuck robustly to this line ever since.

The Council plans a major meeting on September 29 to authorise these new plans to be put to the
public for their views in October. CPRE is told that, under an unusual procedure that is being invoked
for the occasion, the public will be gagged from speaking at this vital meeting, and will only be
allowed to see the agenda 7 days in advance.

The new Government’s Big Society policies encourage Councils to involve communities and residents
from the beginning of large scale planning, rather than keeping plans quiet – and only later putting
them out for public consultation. “Councillors have got themselves a problem. They state they are
firmly against Green Belt housing, then it is found that the Officers have been planning it,” said Terry
Stewart, President Dorset CPRE, “now they want to gag the public at the meeting where it will be
reviewed. We are horrified that our Green Belt will not be protected.”

Campaign to Protect Rural England
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East Dorset residents fear 900 green belt homes by Andy B on Thursday, 16 September 2010
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Monday 12th July 2010

FOUR years after hundreds of residents opposed 900 new homes in West Parley’s greenbelt, campaigners fear they are back on the table.

It is thought East Dorset District Council, much criticised for its lack of affordable housing, is earmarking the area between Parley Cross and New Road for 600 properties, with more allocated to Dudsbury Heights and Holmwood Park, in Ferndown.
Community groups say although regional spatial strategies, which recommended creating 2,400 new homes between Corfe Mullen, Wimborne and Parley, are set to be scrapped by the new government, the council is still using this as a guideline.

They are worried that after commissioning detailed ‘master-site’ plans for a six-figure sum last September, the council is changing its anti-urban extension stance.
Mid Dorset and North Poole MP Annette Brooke told the Daily Echo: “I hope in this new era of openness and honesty we will see councils working with local communities early in the process.

“It appears the district council is drawing up a planning framework, but it’s all being kept confidential, with the view that everybody is going to object.
“But I think the community accepts the need for affordable housing in the area, and it’s a pity they’re not consulted sooner.
“Later on it can seem a bit top-down and imposed.”

Richard Heaslip, of West Parley Residents Association, said the MP was “spot on”, adding: “It seems regrettable that while the government is urging councils to involve the public more fully in local planning, the Conservative-led district council is keeping the planning up its sleeve and ignoring our wishes to be involved.
“It’s got a public stance of saying its against greenbelt building, but is actively planning to build in it.”

Council leader Spencer Flower was unavailable for comment, but chief executive David McIntosh confirmed East Dorset and Christchurch residents will have a say on a 15-year “core strategy” in October, adding: “We recognise there are significant social and economic pressures for new housing in the district. However, this must be balanced against the need to safeguard and manage the sensitive environment and a requirement to ensure there are improvements in infrastructure and services.”

To register your interest in the eight week consultation, email policy.planning@eastdorset.gov.uk or call 01202 886201 ext 2422.

Source: Daily Echo, article by Harriet Marsh
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Re: Dudsbury Rings by Anonymous on Thursday, 27 May 2010
Visited Dudsbury today 27/5/10. Impressed by the height and steepness of the fortifications which would have commanded the River Stour. Next winter when the mostly deciduous trees will be leafless,we would like to go and see the view of the river which the defenders had. Congrats on your research. Kind regards Lilian and John
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Re: Dudsbury by formicaant on Tuesday, 08 January 2008
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This is a form of promontory hillfort which is above a bend in the river Stour. The most substantial earthworks are two sets of banks and ditches north of the interior. These are visible from the public footpath but are on private land.
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Re: Dudsbury by myrrdin on Monday, 12 March 2007
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Relatively easy to access down a track to the guides camp. Very nearby (5 minute walk) on the corner of a cul de sac called Druids Close(!) is a fairly well preserved round barrow, referred to on maps as Parley Barrow. Also nearby just off golf links road (in lone pine drive) is Ralphs Barrow, large round barrow in excellent condition but unfortunately in someones back garden! Easily visible from the road.
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