Six Hills

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Six Hills by Robin Hall as part of the Geograph project.

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Six Hills

Image: © Robin Hall Taken: 25 Jul 2005

OK do you believe the OS who say that these features are tumuli or legend which says that these humps are lumps of soil thrown at travellers on the old Great North Road (just to the right of these humps but rather imposing nowadays)? It is said that these were thrown here from Weston Woods (Image and Image). Dick Turpin would have ridden past these on Black Bess on his ride from York to London.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.896372
Longitude
-0.206565