Leith Hill

Today's visit to Leith Hill clearly showed that it is not only what you see, but from where you see "it", that determines one's perspective of things.

Leith Hill Tower was built in 1765, and at a height in excess of 60 feet achieved what Richard Hull, the builder set out to do, that being to raise the height of the hill (which without the tower is 965 feet high) above the "magic" 1,000 feet mark! The highest point in Southeast England, it offers views as far as St. Paul's Cathedral in London to the north, and the English Channel to the south. Hull was buried beneath the Gothic Tower in 1772; unconfirmed reports claimed that he was interred vertically - head downwards!