Mount Caburn and its surroundings, including Lewes, taken from Firle Beacon, 28 December 2021.
Highest point
Elevation
150 m (490 ft)
Geography
Location
Glynde, East Sussex, England
Parent range
South Downs
OS grid
TQ 44429 08911
Topo map
OS Landranger 198, Explorer 11, 25
East Sussex portal
Mount Caburn is a 150-metre (492 ft) prominent landmark in East Sussex, England, about one mile (1.6 km) east of Lewes overlooking the village of Glynde. It is the highest part of an outlier of the South Downs, separated from the main range by Glynde Reach, a tributary of the River Ouse.
East Sussex portal MountCaburn is a 150-metre (492 ft) prominent landmark in East Sussex, England, about one mile (1.6 km) east of Lewes overlooking the...
was recognised as early as the Iron Age, when a hill-fort was built on MountCaburn, the steep-sided hill that overlooks the Ouse (and the modern town of...
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activity. It takes the form of a cairn. The first Life Cairn was raised on MountCaburn, near Lewes in East Sussex. The inaugural opening ceremony was held on...
important example of ancient, traditionally managed grassland; Lewes Downs (MountCaburn), a traditionally managed chalk downland (and also an important archaeological...
South Downs. Within the parish, overlooking the village of Glynde, is MountCaburn, a 480 foot (146 m) isolated peak on top of which sits an Iron Age hill...
Polly; Walker, David (2012). Dogma and Disarray: Cameron at Half-Time. MountCaburn Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9573953-0-5. Toynbee, Polly; Walker, David (2015)...
most forms in a year group has been seven. The original four houses were Caburn, Chanctonbury, Ditchling and Firle Ashdown Chanctonbury Ditchling Firle...
tribes in the northeast and Kent maintained a more defensive stance, with MountCaburn being a strongly fortified boundary town. The new ruling class notably...
slipway on the west bank of the Ouse just north of the bridge faces MountCaburn. The nearest village is Rodmell, about a kilometre to the northwest....
sometimes suggested as a possible site of Mount Badon, and thus the location of the late fifth-century AD Battle of Mount Badon mentioned in Gildas's De Excidio...