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<< Text Pages >> Bishop's Wood - Hillfort in England in Staffordshire

Submitted by TimPrevett on Thursday, 25 March 2004  Page Views: 8089

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Bishop's Wood
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 5.038 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Staffordshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Loggerheads  Nearest Village: Hookgate
Map Ref: SJ745336  Landranger Map Number: 127
Latitude: 52.899231N  Longitude: 2.380524W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Marko couldn't find on 29th Dec 2018 - their rating: Access: 3 Tried again to find this site. Thought that by late December the bracken and briars would have died back enough to try to find/access the site -wrong! Since my last attempt,i've got hold of a copy of the 1965-7 map which clearly shows the Earthwork. However!! 50 years on (unsurprisingly) the minor path (off the forest trackway) leading to/through the earhtworks has been totaly engulfed by bracken/briars.With fallen trees and dense tree growth also obscuring the ground/sightlines it makes the promontory hill fort hard to locate. I know i was closer to it than my last visit but did i actually locate/stand within the hillfort - No! Very frustrating. Perhaps another visit,once winter has bitten harder.Third time lucky maybe?!

Marko couldn't find on 30th Mar 2018 On the scant info available i tried for the best part of 2 hours to locate the site! Using the map references I could find absolutely nothing on the ground ie bank's, ditches etc. On the way back through the woods and at a different location/map coordinates I did see what could possibly have been the re entrant gully and 2 rather silted up ditches but the rest of the topography didn't fit the Hill Fort description I had. So overall I have to say that I didn't find it! If anyone out there has any further info as to where exactly to locate this fort - please let me know.

BrownEdger visited on 2nd Jun 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 2 The road leading to the site is a private road. The main road running South from Loggerheads is very busy and nowhere to park. I would suggest parking in Loggerheads itself and walking to the site. There are paths leading nearly all the way around the fort. Ditches and banks visible in parts. Fairly heavily afforested.



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Access: 2.5

Hillfort in Staffordshire

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SJ7433 : Bishop's Wood by Espresso Addict
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SJ7433 : Near the southern edge of Bishop's Wood by Espresso Addict
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SJ7433 : Footpath south of Bishop's Wood by Espresso Addict
by Espresso Addict
©2007(licence)
SJ7433 : Small mere by Bishop's Wood by Espresso Addict
by Espresso Addict
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SJ7433 : Driveway near Bishop's Wood by Row17
by Row17
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Re: Bishop's Wood by Anonymous on Monday, 27 May 2019
hi, does anyone have any information on the stone animals that are around the wood, how old are they? where did they come from?
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