Freeborough Hill

Freeborough Hill is a conical mound, 250 metres high, on the edge of the moors, a kilometre south of Moorsholm. It has been described at the Silbury of the north, but it is a geological feature.

There are many legends associated with the hill, including a story that King Arthur and his knights live inside it. Another suggests a link with the Norse goddess of love and war, Freya. A story was told in 1661 to a traveller that it had been cast up by the Devil at the bidding of an old witch so that she could find her lost cow on the moors. ‘People under the hill stories’ are a common tradition across Europe.