<< Our Photo Pages >> Beckbury Camp - Hillfort in England in Gloucestershire
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Beckbury CampCountry: England County: Gloucestershire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Winchcombe Nearest Village: Farmcote
Map Ref: SP06392988 Landranger Map Number: 150
Latitude: 51.967360N Longitude: 1.908399W
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 |
5 | Superb |
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 |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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poho visited on 22nd Jan 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Fabulous views, and a lovely walk down the Cotswolds Way to the abbey. Look out for the ancient apple tree on the path on the way down!
TheCaptain visited on 15th Sep 2021 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Cotswold Way walk starting by taking the steam train from Toddington to Winchcombe, then walk back northeast to Toddington stopping at Hailes Abbey and Beckbury hillfort. Lovely
4clydesdale7 visited on 31st Aug 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Beckbury Camp has quite a few surprises - ancient tracks - large stones - and more
Andy B have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4 Access: 3
More details from 4clydesdale7:
This site is well worth a visit particularly as your visit will have a few little extras added - the Camp is a single bank and ditch 'univallate' Iron Age Hillfort essentially rectangular in shape lying N-S measuring 170m by 130m with its ramparts some 5m high - it is protected on its N and W sides by the steep W Cotswold scarp and has an area of approx 4 acres - the S rampart has a much later addition of a Cotswold dry stone wall built on top. Witts Camp No.9. Pastscape website 327715.
In the NW corner is a clump of beech trees (Cromwell's Clump - Thomas not Oliver) above which a stone monument with a seat has been erected - Glos. County Council names this as Cromwell's Seat but this name is not supported by English Heritage who own it (and Hailes Abbey below - which Cromwell supervised being dismantled in 1539).
The site is best approached from Stumps Cross - to get to the site you will pass along an Ancient Track called Campden Lane and you will pass a black wooden hen house/barn set upon staddle stones and a little further on a very large Boundary Stone which has been converted into a substantial gate post - I cannot find any reference to this Stone at all in historic records - placed anywhere else it would have archaeologists talking of Long Barrows and inhumations - it is 1.75m high and 0.5m thick
The views from the Camp are excellent and on a clear day it is suggested that another 12 hillforts are within sight
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