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Giant's Hill is a Norman motte castle near Rampton, Cambridgeshire. It lies on the Ampthill Clay at the western edge of Little North Fen. The motte is a roughly rectangular, flat-topped island, about 5ft higher than the adjacent fields, measuring 165ft by 145ft across and surrounded by a ditch up to 130ft wide by 6ft deep. During the Second World War the castle was utilised as a gun emplacement by the Home Guard. The castle is thought to have been built over the eastern end of the mediæval settlement at Rampton. At least two embanked enclosures remain to the north of the castle. The site is within the council area of South Cambridgeshire (Cambridgeshire).
Historic England Scheduled Monument 1011778.
Place Type: Mediæval Castle
Historic County: Cambridgeshire
Lat, Long: 52.291593,0.09649
Grid Reference: TL 4308 6800
Civil Parish: Rampton CP
Council Area: South Cambridgeshire CA (Cambridgeshire CA)
Strategic Authority Area: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough SA
Police Area: Cambridgeshire PA
GBPN ID: 302031
Entry Type: Main listing (P)
URL: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/Giant's_Hill,_Cambridgeshire_302031
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Historic England Scheduled Monument 1011778.
Place Type: Mediæval Castle
Historic County: Cambridgeshire
Lat, Long: 52.291593,0.09649
Grid Reference: TL 4308 6800
Civil Parish: Rampton CP
Council Area: South Cambridgeshire CA (Cambridgeshire CA)
Strategic Authority Area: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough SA
Police Area: Cambridgeshire PA
GBPN ID: 302031
Entry Type: Main listing (P)
URL: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/Giant's_Hill,_Cambridgeshire_302031
Peruse Cambridgeshire on Wikishire