Table Hill

For other hills with flat tops, see Table hill.

Table Hill
File:Miniature Granite Quarry, Table Hill - geograph.org.uk - 252959.jpg Quarry on Table Hill
Highest point
Elevation
Prominence	c. 337 metres (1,106 ft)
Parent peak	Worcestershire Beacon
Coordinates
Geography
Location	Malvern Hills, England
Topo map	OS Landranger 150
Geology
Age of rock	Pre-Cambrian
Mountain type	Igneous, Metamorphic
Climbing
Easiest route	Hiking

Table Hill is situated in the range of Malvern Hills that runs about north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border. It lies between North Hill and Sugarloaf Hill and has an elevation of 373 metres (1,224 ft).

History

Although the flint route from North Wales to Wessex lay to the north of Malvern, there is some evidence to suggest that traders passed over the Malvern Hills. Parts of an arrowhead, a scraper and flint flakes have been discovered between North Hill and Table Hill. A 19th-century guidebook describes both a collapsed burial mound on North Hill, named the Giant's Grave, and a tump on Table Hill. These tumuli may have been connected to the Dobunni settlement in Mathon:

Upon the Table Hill you will perceive the figure of a large table, whence the name is derived. In the centre is a cross, of the same size as that by the Giant's Grave, upon North Hill.

External links

• Walks on the Northern Hills

• Smith, B.S: 1978 A History of Malvern Allan Sutton and The Malvern Bookshop ISBN 0-904387-31-3
• Southall, M: 1882 A Description of Malvern and its Concomitants