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Breidden Hill is an extinct volcanic hill, located west of the border between Shropshire, England and Powys, Wales, near the town of Welshpool. It is immediately surrounded by the villages of Trewern, Criggion, Crew Green and Llandrinio. The peak of the hill reaches to .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Handbook for travellers in North Wales )〕 Footpaths which lead up to the summit provide excellent 360 degree views over the Shropshire Plain and Mid-Wales. Breidden Hill is one of five peaks with neighbouring Moel y Golfa, which is the highest at , which is a "Marilyn", with a prominence of . The three others are Cefn y Castellm (also known as Middletown Hill), Kempsters Hill and Bausley Hill (over high) with its Iron Age galleried fortification. The five hills are sometimes collectively known as the Breidden Hills, and form a northern extension of the Long Mountain. There are remains of a British Iron Age hillfort en route which may have been the site of the last stand of Caractacus. Rodney's Pillar at the top was built by the gentlemen of Montgomeryshire who supplied oak wood from the area and shipped it down the River Severn (which runs nearby at Bausley with Criggion) to Bristol where Admiral Rodney's naval fleet was built. Rodney's Pillar is increasingly being used as a navigational aid by helicopter pilots in this area, due to its visibility from large areas of Wales. Beginning around 1789, for many years members of the Breidden Society, founded by John Dovaston (1740–1808), met near Rodney's Pillar for an annual festival of food, drink, poetry, and song; records of their meetings for 1809-15 are preserved at the Houghton Library of Harvard University (MS Eng 1168).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Antiquities, biography, poetry, etc. : manuscript, 1801-1940. )〕 There is a large quarry on the western and northern sides of Breidden Hill. The rock is a thick gabbroic-dolerite laccolith, which is a source of roadstone.〔Rawson, P.F. and Brenchley P.J. (2006) ''The Geology of England and Wales'' Geological Society of London ISBN 978-1-86239-200-7 p.63 in (Google Books )〕 ==See also== *List of hill forts in Wales *Bredon Hill and Bredon village in Worcestershire 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Breidden Hill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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