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Ebrington Hill is a
hill A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. It often has a distinct summit, and is usually applied to peaks which are above elevation compared to the relative landmass, though not as prominent as Mountain, mountains. Hills ...
in
Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Ox ...
, England, which at 261 m (856 ft) is the highest in the county. It is situated between the villages of Ebrington, Mickleton and
Ilmington Ilmington is a village and Civil parish#United Kingdom, civil parish about north-west of Shipston-on-Stour and south of Stratford-upon-Avon in the Cotswolds in Warwickshire, England, Warwickshire, England. The population of the civil parish ta ...
on the Warwickshire and
Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( , ; abbreviated Glos.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire ...
border in the
Cotswolds The Cotswolds ( ) is a region of central South West England, along a range of rolling hills that rise from the meadows of the upper River Thames to an escarpment above the Severn Valley and the Vale of Evesham. The area is defined by the bedroc ...
. The summit lies within the modern administrative boundaries of Warwickshire following boundary changes over the last century, but technically the summit was historically (just) over the border in Gloucestershire. The true historic county top of Warwickshire thus lies about 30m south of the summit on a track (grid reference SP 18778 42599, height ). The triangulation pillar at is not the summit of the hill.


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{{reflist Highest points of English counties Hills of Warwickshire