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at 285 metres (935 ft), continuing south to the main summit and south east to meet a minor road beside the Roman fort and follow that road north for an anticlockwise circuit. In his original book Wainwright lists the height as 920 feet (280 m), but in the 2011 2nd edition Chris Jesty corrects
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enclosure of undetermined age, known as "The Battery" on the northern summit, St. John's Hill. There are traces of a 1st-century AD Roman fort below the hill, to the south east.
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St John's Hill is listed in the index to Wainwright's book, but is not mentioned on the first page of the chapter as is his convention for named or nameless summits.
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Wainwright, Alfred (2011). "Caermote Hill". In Jesty, Chris (ed.).
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is a hill of 289 metres (948 ft) in the north of the English
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St John's Hill
St Johns Hill

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Prominence
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Coordinates
54°43′38″N 3°14′59″W / 54.7272°N 3.2497°W / 54.7272; -3.2497
Cumbria
England
OS grid
NY196376
Lake District
Bothel
Cumbria
Lake District National Park
Bassenthwaite Lake
Wainwright's
The Outlying Fells of Lakeland
earthwork
Database of British and Irish Hills
TuMP


"St. John's Hill [Caermote Hill N Top]"
Wainwright, A.
The Outlying Fells of Lakeland
ISBN
9780711231757
Historic England

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