View NW of Breedon on the Hill church (St Mary and St Hardulph), the Bulwarks Iron Age hillfort & Breedon Quarry, Leicestershire, England, UK.

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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.

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Size: 3781px × 2674px
Location: St Mary and St Hardulph Church, Breedon on the Hill, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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