Dragon Hill
Early-attested site in the Parish of Uffington
Etymology
Dragon Hill, 1830 OS; cf. Grinsell p. 12, 'Dragon Hill is the curious knoll just below Uffington Castle and the White Horse - there is no doubt that the eminence is natural but with an artificially flattened top - The well-known tradition, recorded as far back as 1738 by Wise, is that Dragon Hill is where St George slew the Dragon, and the patch of bare chalk on the knoll is where the blood issued from the Dragon's wound, poisoning the ground so that no grass has ever grown there since. This bare patch is just as plain now as it was two hundred years ago.' The mound is probably the eceles beorh mentioned in the charter-bounds of Uffington and Woolstone, v. Pt 3.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Britchcombe Fm
- Grounds Fm
- Long Plantation
- Shepherd's Steps
- Broad Way
- Craven Arms P.H.
- Garrard's Fm
- Little Lane
- Oldland Copse
- Sower Hill Fm
- Stockholm Fm
- Uffington Arch, Uffington Bridge and Uffington Wharf
- Uffington Down and Uffington Gorse
- Uffington Mill
- Uffington Wood
- White Horse P.H.
- Common Fm
- Hare Warren
- Manor Fm and Manor Ho
- Shotover Cottage
- Alfred's Hill
- Coombes Barn, The Coombes
- Kingston Warren Down
- Moor Mill