The view from Maiden Castle of Poundbury village development and agricultural farm land owned by Prince Charles. DAVID MANSELL
View from Maiden Castle, with it's giant earthworks, walls of earth some as high as 6 metres ( 20ft ) enclosing an area the size of 50 football pitches making it one of the largest Iron Age hillforts in Europe, where people lived and worked more than 2000 years ago. Maiden Castle is situated just 2 miles south of the market town of Dorchester where the Duchy of Cornwall owns and farms the agricultural land and has been able to develop the land inside the A35 bye-pass to create a vernacular village of Poundbury where 5000 residents now live. The eco-friendly development of Poundbury has increased the population with disregard to school places, hospitals, transport, as well as not having any solar energy panels and sewage filtration ponds. A zero carbon development of affordable eco-housing for local people would have been more desirable. A women is exercising running with her dogs along the top of the earthworks of Maiden Castle. DAVID MANSELL
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Location: Maiden Castle, Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK.
Photo credit: © David Mansell / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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