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Woodbury, Stoke Fleming

Iron Age hillfort in Stoke Fleming, South Hams, Devon, England, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 12, 2022
Entity authorityQ8032457 ↗
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Woodbury is an Iron Age hillfort situated in the parish of Stoke Fleming, close to Dartmouth in Devon, England. The fort is situated on a promontory on the southern side of Norton Down at approximately 145 metres (476 ft) above sea level.

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"Woodbury Camp". Heritage at Risk Register. Retrieved 12 February 2022.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 12, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q8032457. Authority coordinates are 50.348, -3.628. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Woodbury, Stoke Fleming” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.