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<< Our Photo Pages >> Beckbury Camp - Hillfort in England in Gloucestershire

Submitted by vicky on Monday, 07 October 2002  Page Views: 18405

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Beckbury Camp
Country: 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:
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.
4 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
5

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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

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by h_fenton : Beckbury Camp, viewed from the east. Kite Aerial Photograph 2 February 2013 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort on the edge of the Cotswold Hills above Hailes Abbey to the east of Winchcombe in Gloucestershire

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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Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 : Cromwell's Seat (Vote or comment on this photo)

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by Briton : Frosty morning on the ramparts of Beckbury Camp in the Cotswolds. January 2009. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by poho : The view to the west, taken from the eastern embankment (Vote or comment on this photo)

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by TheCaptain : Panoramic view of the camp from the northwestern corner (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by TheCaptain : Panoramic view of the camp inside from the northeastern edge. (1 comment)

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by TheCaptain : The northwestern corner of the camp, viewed looking at the steep hillside on the western edge, and Cromwell's Seat

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by TheCaptain : Panoramic view of the camp from the northwestern corner

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by TheCaptain : Panoramic view of the camp inside from the northeastern edge

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by TheCaptain : The pathway through the northeastern defences with the steep hillside behind this view

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by TheCaptain : The northeastern defences in the September late afternoon sun

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by TheCaptain : Viewed from the east in the September late afternoon sun

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The SE corner showing the later Cotswold dry stone walling on the top of the S rampart

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 : An entrance on the E side probably modern

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The SW corner looking W. There is a small spring just a short hop down the scarp.

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 : The W side protected by the Cotswold scarp

Beckbury Camp
Beckbury Camp submitted by Andy B : Earthworks, Beckbury Camp Part of the earthwork which follows the eastern and southern side of Beckbury Camp. Roman coins and flint arrowheads have been found at the site. Copyright Philip Halling and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.

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Re: Beckbury Camp by Anonymous on Friday, 03 May 2019
We walked the Cotswold Way last spring and wondered what or who the "monument" was erected to remember(March 21/18)?
Sounds like its meaning is lost to date in the mists of time.

Gareth Harding and Renee Lyons,
Halifax, Nova Scotia.


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Re: Beckbury Camp by 4clydesdale7 on Thursday, 01 September 2011
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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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