View NW of Breedon on the Hill church (St Mary and St Hardulph), the Bulwarks Iron Age hillfort & Breedon Quarry, Leicestershire, England, UK.
RMID:Image ID:2T73PF9
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Mick Sharp / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
2T73PF9File size:
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3781 x 2674 px | 32 x 22.6 cm | 12.6 x 8.9 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
17 December 1982Location:
St Mary and St Hardulph Church, Breedon on the Hill, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England, UKMore information:
View NW of Breedon on the Hill church, The Bulwarks Iron Age hillfort & Breedon Quarry, Leicestershire, England, UK. Over half of the Carboniferous limestone hill & C1st/2ndBC hillfort have been quarried away. An Anglo-Saxon double monastery was founded within the hillfort around AD675/6. Abandoned after Viking raids of 874, a Norman Augustinian priory was established c 1120. The W tower of the priory church is in three stages with a battlemented parapet; largely C12th it was raised in C14th-15th. The quarry supplies decorative aggregates.