Rowley's Hill is a hill in
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfor ...
, near the villages of
Harston and
Newton.
Although of only moderate height (), it has a relatively large
prominence of due to it being surrounded on all sides by a '
moat
A moat is a deep, broad ditch dug around a castle, fortification, building, or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence. Moats can be dry or filled with water. In some places, moats evolved into more extensive water d ...
' of much lower land.
It therefore stands separate from the other hills in the region and has a distinctive appearance.
The hill has a north east top, St Margaret's Mount, Maggot's Mount
or Maggots Mound
(). On top of this is a grade II
listed obelisk
An obelisk (; , diminutive of (') ' spit, nail, pointed pillar') is a tall, slender, tapered monument with four sides and a pyramidal or pyramidion top. Originally constructed by Ancient Egyptians and called ''tekhenu'', the Greeks used th ...
. It is a memorial to
Gregory Wale, of
Little Shelford, of the eighteenth century.
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{{commons category-inline, Rowley's Hill, Cambridgeshire
Hills of Cambridgeshire
Obelisks in England
Harston