<< Our Photo Pages >> Wooston Castle - Hillfort in England in Devon
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Wooston CastleCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.3 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Exeter Nearest Village: Doccombe
Map Ref: SX76608935 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.690673N Longitude: 3.748372W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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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 |
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Hillfort on the southern side of the heavily wooded river Teign valley, north Dartmoor
Update December 2019: This hillfort is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Wooston Castle Fort and The Neolithic tombs of Cuckoo Ball & Corringdon Ball.
The fort is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 445354, as MDV8292 (Wooston Castle) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1003822 (Wooston Castle).
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