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Dragon Hill

Uffington, Oxfordshire

Where St George killed the dragon, and no grass will grow on its blood.

Below the Uffington White Horse is a small flat-topped hill. Local legend says this is where St George killed the dragon.

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When
Legend
Where
51.5790, -1.5700
Group
Dragons & monsters

Visiting

National Trust, free. Climb it from the White Horse car park.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
From the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

Keeping it white is a continuing job. If regular cleaning stops, the figure quickly becomes obscured.

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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