Roundway Hill and Oliver's Caste

This is the second video i produced last year which combines video footage and stills all taken in the same area.

Roundway Hill has been one of my favourite photographic locations for years and seeing it from the air for the first time has helped me appreciate it even more as an area of natural beauty.

It sits at the far western end of the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire, enjoying views far across the Bristol Avon Vale, the Vale of Pewsey, and the edge of Salisbury Plain.

On its summit is Oliver’s Castle - an Iron Age hillfort named after Oliver Cromwell following a civil war battle fought nearby in 1643 (a Royalist cavalry unit crushed the Parliamentary army which was besieging the Royalist stronghold of Devizes just down the road).

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