to the site and the surrounding area. Poetry The English poet and author Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), who lived nearby at Heytesbury House, wrote about Scratchbury Camp on a June day in 1942, capturing the ambience of the Wiltshire Downs on a summer's day, whilst touching on the pervasive military presence of that age and the historical timelessness of the area. Location The site is located at , to the east of the town of Warminster and to the north of the village of Norton Bavant, in the county of Wiltshire. The hill has a summit of AOD. Nearby to the northwest lies Middle Hill, and further northwest the hillfort of Battlesbury Camp, on Battlesbury Hill. To the southeast lies Cotley Hill. The site and surrounding downs are easily accessible by public footpath: the Wessex Ridgeway and the Imber Range perimeter path follow the northern ramparts of the fort, however care must be taken not to stray into the military firing ranges of Salisbury Plain immediately to the northeast. Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty lies to the south. See also List of hill forts in England References Notes Bibliography External links Scratchbury Camp barrow group – English Heritage Pastscape (monument number 211401) Wiltshire Walks no.8: Norton Bavant and Scratchbury Hill – Visit Wiltshire, archived in 2011 Topographical drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm of Middle Hill and Scratchbury Hill, 1790 – via British Library Online Gallery Iron Age sites in England Hill forts in Wiltshire Archaeological sites in Wiltshire Scheduled monuments in Wiltshire Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire Sites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1951 Hills of Wiltshire Causewayed enclosures