Leith Hill is a wooded hill some 7 km to the south west of
Dorking,
Surrey,
England. It reaches
above sea level, the highest point on the
Greensand Ridge, and is the second highest point in
south-east England, after
Walbury Hill near
Hungerford,
West Berkshire, high. It was possibly on the summit of Leith Hill in 851, that
Æthelwulf of Wessex, father of
Alfred the Great, defeated the Danes who were heading for
Winchester, having sacked
Canterbury and
London.