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Looking across the top of the trees at May Hill in Gloucestershire in the UK
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Looking across the top of the trees at May Hill in Gloucestershire in the UK
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An area of 30 ha of the hill is owned by the National Trust,[1] though the very top is vested with Longhope Parish Council and registered as a Village Green. The site boundary was amended in 1983.[5] The hill includes a circular trench 100 metres in diameter said to be an Iron Age earthwork, surrounding a mound that is probably a round barrow. The hill was enclosed by an act of parliament in 1873 and passed into the care of the National Trust in 1935.[2] There are records of a clump of trees on the summit of May Hill dating back to the later 18th century. The dwindling clump was replenished in time for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.[2] There was further replenishment 90 years later. A plaque on the summit commemorating the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 1977 reads; "This plaque was erected by the parishes of Longhope & Newent as a tribute to a gracious and beloved monarch. God Save the Queen".[3] The summit is reached by three public footpaths, two of them forming parts of the Gloucestershire Way and Wysis Way.[8]