Dragon Hill, Uffington

A natural chalk hill about 10 metres high with an artificially flattened top, situated immediately below the Uffington White Horse on the Oxfordshire-Wiltshire border. Likely formed by glacial erosion, its summit was levelled by the Dobunni, a pre-Roman Celtic tribe. Legend holds that Saint George slew the dragon here, with a bare chalk patch where no grass grows said to mark where the dragon's blood spilled. In a 10th-century charter the hill is called Eccles Beorh ("Church Barrow"), suggesting a former Christian building on its summit. The site sits within a rich Bronze Age and Iron Age landscape including Uffington Castle hillfort and the White Horse figure dated to 1740-210 BC.