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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Knightslow Wood E
Country: England County: Cheshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Disley Nearest Village: Lyme
Map Ref: SJ965817 Landranger Map Number: 109
Latitude: 53.332199N Longitude: 2.054018W
Condition:

5	Perfect
4	Almost Perfect
3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0	No data.
-1	Completely destroyed

2 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

no data Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0	No data.

3 Accuracy:

5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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Round Barrow in Cheshire

According to the County Sites and Monuments Record, Knights Low Wood in the care of the National Trust on the Lyme Estate, is a barrow hot spot, home to a number of Bronze Age mounds.

This flat topped oval mound 0.9m high and 9m by 7.5m in diameter may be one of three possible barrows discussed by Marriott in his Antiquities of Lyme in 1810:‘3 small tumuli, just beyond the wall which forms the partition of the calf-croft from the Knight’s Low. These are not particularly striking, yet have character enough in them to warrant the supposition that they may be composed for small barrows or sepulchres.’

Access

The barrows in Knights Low Wood are very hard to distinguish and not really worth visiting specifically to try and find them. However, the walk through the woodland is very pleasant. It is best reached by parking on the roadside near the Bowstones at GR: SJ974813 and following the footpath (Gritstone Trail) down the hill and into the woods. This barrow is located east of the north-south aligned path through the wood

References

D.M.Longley “Prehistory” in C.R.Elrington (ed) “The Victoria History of the County of Chester, volume 1, Oxford University Press (1987)

J. Barnatt & J. Collis “Barrows in the Peak District – Recent Research”, J.R.Collis Publications (1996)

Rev. W. Marriott “Antiquities of Lyme” (1810)
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**Knightslow Wood East** submitted by vicky : Eastern Bowl barrow in Knightslow Wood, Lyme Handley. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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SJ9681 : Path in Knightslow Wood by Graham Hogg — by Graham Hogg
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SJ9681 : Track through Knightslow Wood by Bill Boaden — by Bill Boaden
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SJ9681 : Lime Avenue by Kevin Waterhouse — by Kevin Waterhouse
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SJ9681 : Knightslow Wood from Park Moor by Anthony Parkes — by Anthony Parkes
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SJ9681 : Below Knightslow Wood, Lyme Park by Mike Harris — by Mike Harris
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