Mountains & hills · West Midlands
May Hill
May Hill — Named summit at 296 m.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 3 h–8 h
- Best time of year
- Late spring – early autumn (May–Oct)
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
May Hill is a named summit in the United Kingdom. Wikidata describes it as: "Named summit at 296 m.". Coordinates: 51.8894°, -2.4442°.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: May Hill SSSI
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Cotswolds
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
May Hill is a prominent English hill between Gloucester and Ross-on-Wye. Its summit, on the western edge of Gloucestershire and its northern slopes in Herefordshire, is distinguishable by a clump of trees on its summit, which forms an official Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is reached by three public footpaths, two as parts of the Gloucestershire Way and Wysis Way.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
The hill includes a circular trench 100 metres in diameter, thought to be an Iron Age earthwork, surrounding a mound that is probably a round barrow. An area of 30 ha of the hill passed into the care of the National Trust in 1935, although the summit has remained vested with Longhope Parish Council and registered as a village green. There was further replenishment of the trees in 1977 for the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II. A plaque on the summit commemorating this reads: The site boundary was amended in 1983. May Hill used to have a football club, whose biggest honour was winning the George Sandoe Cup in the 1950s. The village no longer has a football team, the closest being Longhope…
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- Coordinates
- 51.8894, -2.4442
- County
- Gloucestershire
- District
- Forest of Dean
- Parish
- Longhope
- Postcode
- GL17 0RF
- Parliamentary constituency
- Forest of Dean
Sources
- osm: n359373374 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: May Hill, Gloucestershire (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Fine view of May Hill - geograph.org.uk - 906969.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is May Hill?
- May Hill is in Gloucestershire, the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode GL17 0RF), in the parish of Longhope.
- Is May Hill a protected site?
- Yes — May Hill is part of the May Hill SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Cotswolds National Landscape (AONB).
- Is May Hill free to visit?
- Yes, May Hill is free to enter.
- How do I get to May Hill?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode GL17 0RF. It sits within the Forest of Dean parliamentary constituency.