(907ft) above sea level, with a prominence of 114m, and is classified as a Hump (hill with a hundred metre or greater prominence). It is the highest point in the Borough of Swindon. During the Second World War, the hilltop surrounding Liddington Castle was used as a Starfish site (a bombing decoy designed to appear as a burning town or city). Evidence of this use remains in the form of the surviving command bunker, located north-east of the fort, and a metal trough used to simulate explosions and fire. Liddington Castle was a favourite haunt of local writer of natural history and rural life, Richard Jefferies, who spent much of his spare time walking through the wide chalk expanses of the Marlborough Downs. It was on this summit that he relates in The Story of My Heart that his unusual sensitivity to nature began to induce in him a powerful inner awakening – a desire for a larger existence or reality. The hill is frequently used by the Thames Valley Hang Gliding and Paragliding Club. See also List of hillforts in England List of hillforts in Scotland List of hillforts in Wales References Notes Hill forts in Wiltshire History of Wiltshire Hills of Wiltshire Scheduled monuments in Wiltshire