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Seven Springs (Gloucestershire)
Date Added: 7th Aug 2021
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Seven Springs (Gloucestershire) submitted by TheCaptain on 6th Aug 2021. Seven Springs can claim to be the true source of the River Thames. Clear water gushes through several gaps underneath a large drystone wall in a pleasant wooded hollow.
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Log Text: Cotswold Way walk around Leckhampton Hill from Seven Springs. Seven Springs, just 4 miles from central Cheltenham up on the Cotswold Hills, can claim to be the true source of the River Thames. Clear water gushes through several gaps underneath a large drystone wall in a pleasant wooded hollow beside the busy A436, under which it then flows in a pipe into a small lake the other side of the road.
Painswick Beacon
Date Added: 19th Jul 2021
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Painswick Beacon submitted by h_fenton on 3rd Mar 2011. Looking northwards over the ramparts of Painswick Beacon (hillfort), with Gloucester beyond and the Malvern Hills on the horizon (the other side of the Severn Valley).
Kite Aerial Photograph
12 February 2011
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Log Text: Cotswold Way loop walk north from Painswick, across the golf course and through woods to Cranham Corner before turning back for a pint at the Royal William. Then over the hill and west before turning back to the top of Painswick Beacon, before descending to the east through Paradise along the Wysis Way, and then back to Painswick along the river and up the hill for a pint at the Royal Oak.
Lineover
Date Added: 16th Jun 2021
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Lineover submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 17th Nov 2011. The Barrow from the South (taken from the N verge of the A436)
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Log Text: Cotswold Way walk north around Cheltenham from Seven Springs to Cleeve Hill. Small detour for a look at the remains of Lineover longbarrow, in a field of cows
Cleeve Hill (Gloucestershire)
Date Added: 20th Jun 2021
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cleeve Hill (Gloucestershire) submitted by h_fenton on 29th Mar 2009. Cleeve Hill - Hillfort.
Kite Aerial Photograph, 29 March 2009
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Log Text: Cotswold Way walk north around Cheltenham from Seven Springs to Cleeve Hill. Walk all around the ramparts of what is left of this hillfort, much of the western side of which has been quarried away. Fabulous views over Cheltenham.
Cleeve Hill Cross Dyke
Date Added: 20th Jun 2021
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Cleeve Hill Cross Dyke submitted by h_fenton on 19th Nov 2011. Cleeve Hill Cross Dyke, photographed from the east.
Kite Aerial Photograph
13 November 2011
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Log Text: Cotswold Way walk north around Cheltenham from Seven Springs to Cleeve Hill. Walk through and have a quick look at the cross dyke, around the southern edge of the peak with the trig point.
The Ring (Gloucestershire)
Date Added: 20th Jun 2021
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2021. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 3
The Ring (Gloucestershire) submitted by h_fenton on 19th Nov 2011. The Ring, enclosure on Cleeve Hill (Cleeve Common) Gloucestershire.
Kite Aerial Photograph from the north west.
13 November 2011 @ 2.35pm
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Log Text: Cotswold Way walk from Seven Springs to Cleeve Hill. After visiting the trig point, dropped down to the carpark and golf club for a beer. Walked right by The Ring and forgot to have a look and take note. Beer was needed!
Crippet's Barrow
Date Added: 11th Jun 2021
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Crippet's Barrow submitted by Humbucker on 17th Mar 2018. Crippet's / Shurdington Long Barrow from the south east. I visited late afternoon in the Autumn of 2017. I had heard of very inquisitive horses in the field, but it was empty when I visited.
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Log Text: Walking the Cotswold Way north from Crickley Hill, and I forgot to keep a look out for Crippet's Long Barrow, but at this point the footpath and separate bridleway are well fenced in, so I wouldn't have been able to get to the edge of the woodlands at the top of the hill to have a look anyway. I later got a long distance view from near the radio masts and reservoir entrance, just about making out the large barrow in its tree covered setting.
Birdlip Camp
Date Added: 11th Jun 2021
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Birdlip Camp submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 30th Apr 2013. S end of the Outer Bank and Ditch - the line is just discernible and proceeds from middle foreground towards the skyline and then off to the top left corner
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Log Text: Walking the Cotswold Way north from Birdlip and the sharply pointed headland has slight remnants of a ditch and banks across the neck in these beautiful woodlands.
Crickley Hill
Date Added: 11th Jun 2021
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Crickley Hill General submitted by vicky on 10th Sep 2002. Crickley Hill in Gloucestershire - Neolithic enclosure and Iron Age Hillfort.
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Log Text: Walking the Cotswold Way north around Crickley Hill, and the first thing seen is a large bank across the headland. After the turn at the point, progressing back along the northern side and it is seen that there were once substantial defences, and many modern day concrete markers show the points where the huts etc were found. A series of notice boards give a full history of the place and there is an information centre, which I did not have time to look round today. Somewhere to come back to on another time.
Fantastic views all around, the Malvern Hills to the north, the Forest of Dean and Black Mountains to the west, and all along the Cotswold edge in both directions.
Starveall
Date Added: 11th Jun 2021
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Starveall submitted by TheCaptain on 29th Mar 2004. Starveall Barrow, South Gloucestershire, ST794879, March 2004.
View looking west at the barrows east side.
The ploughed field surrounding the barrow is eating away at it. The most recent ploughing must have taken a couple of feet from each end, with all the stones which formerly made up the mound being scattered across the field.
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Log Text: I revisited this barrow June 2021 to see what sort of state it is now in. All shorn of the trees a decade ago, all we have now is an elongated mound in the field, but it is at least fenced off for protection.
Cranham Corner Earthworks
Date Added: 10th Jun 2021
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st May 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cranham Corner Earthworks submitted by TheCaptain on 10th Jun 2021. Small earthworks within the woodland at Cranham Corner.
I am not convinced they would have been of much use defensively, being on a slight slope not at the top of the hill, and not very large.
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Log Text: Walking a Cooper's Hill Circuit of the Cotswold Way from Cranham, and first off had a look at these small earthworks. I am not convinced they would have been of much use defensively, being on a slight slope not at the top of the hill, and not very large.
Tile Well
Date Added: 10th Jun 2021
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st May 2021. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 3
Tile Well submitted by TheCaptain on 10th Jun 2021. Partway down the north facing hillside above the Roman Villa, is found this gushing source of crystal clear water, seemingly appearing from under the tree roots.
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Log Text: Walking a Cooper's Hill Circuit of the Cotswold Way from Cranham, and partway down the north facing scarp, above the Roman Villa, is found this gushing source of crystal clear water, which can be heard from a fairly large distance today.
High Brotheridge
Date Added: 10th Jun 2021
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st May 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
High Brotheridge submitted by 4clydesdale7 on 7th Jul 2014. Inturned Banks at S Entrance
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Log Text: Walking a Cooper's Hill Circuit of the Cotswold Way from Cranham, and passed around the western edge of this massive hilltop settlement with various bits and pieces of defensive ramparts to be seen.
West Tump
Date Added: 10th Jun 2021
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 31st May 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
West Tump submitted by Dabberdave on 15th Jan 2017. West Tump long barrow after recent tree clearance.
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Log Text: Walking a Cooper's Hill Circuit of the Cotswold Way from Cranham, and on the way back to Cranham I made a diversion into the woods to find this long barrow. It’s a massive lump, now mostly cleared of trees, and built in an east to west sense, significantly bigger at the eastern end, which was no doubt the main entrance.
Brackenbury Ditches
Date Added: 25th Apr 2021
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Brackenbury Ditches submitted by Humbucker on 16th Jun 2020. The footpath along the ridge of The West Woods follows the ramparts to Brackenbury Ditches on this section from North Nibley to Wotton Under Edge.
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Log Text: Beautiful sunny morning walk from Wotton-under-Edge, up and over to Waterley Bottom down the valley to join the Cotswold Way and head up through North Nibley and up the steep Cotswold Edge to the Tyndale Monument. Then all along the edge of the hills, through beautiful bluebell, wild garlic and anemone filled woods, taking in the atmospheric old iron age fort of Brackenbury Ditches before out into the open above Wotton, dropping steeply down into the town for a pint in The Star.
Golden Cap Barrows
Date Added: 16th Oct 2020
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes on 15th Oct 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Golden Cap Barrows submitted by TheCaptain on 22nd Oct 2020. Remains of 5 barrows can be seen on Golden Cap summit, the highest point on the British south coast.
The inland barrows viewed here looking westwards towards Lyme Regis and Beer Head beyond.
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Log Text: Visit on a walk from Seatown up the coast path up and over the Golden Cap and around Stanton St Gabriel and back. Remains of 5 barrows can be seen on the open hilltop to the west of the highest point of 191m, the highest point on the British south coast. They are in a line along the top, but now very low and worn, clearly showing the Chert and gravelly golden sandstone of which they are constructed.
Doghouse Hill
Date Added: 18th Oct 2020
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 15th Oct 2020
Doghouse Hill submitted by TheCaptain on 18th Oct 2020. Seen from the top of Golden Cap, Doghouse Hill is the central of the three hilltops in the mid distance, just inland from the headland cliffs.
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Log Text: Seen from a distance during a walk from Seatown up the coast path up and over the Golden Cap and around Stanton St Gabriel and back.
Dyrham Camp
Date Added: 17th Oct 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Gloucestershire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Oct 2020
Dyrham Camp submitted by Thorgrim on 22nd Aug 2003. Dyrham Camp, otherwise known as Hinton Hillfort, is best seen from high land in Dyrham Park (National Trust) Dating from the Iron Age, it was the likely site of the Battle of Dyrham in 577 AD when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tells us that the invading Saxons under "Cuthwine and Ceawlin fought against the Britons and slew three kings, Coinmail, Condidan and Farimail at the place which is called Dyrham; and they captured three cities, Gloucester, Cirencester and Bath"
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Log Text: Walking a loop on the Cotswold Way around Dyrham and Tormarton, see Hinton Hillfort from the southern side in the fading autumn sunlight.
Avebury
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Avebury - The Cove submitted by HarryTwenty on 13th May 2019. Another view of the Cove stones.
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Log Text: The electric at home is off for the day so they can cut some trees, so I have a trip to Avebury for a long walk up to the polisher, down the Ridgeway and back to Avebury via Overton Down, East Kennet, West Kennet longbarrow, Silbury Hill, Waden Hill and the Avenue. Well deserved pint at the Red Lion. Beautiful day out.
Avebury - The Cove
Date Added: 2nd Oct 2020
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Avebury - The Cove submitted by Wolfie on 19th Sep 2003. Avebury - The Cove
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Log Text: After a pint at the Red Lion, I go for a look at the Cove, gleaming in the low afternoon sun. Those stones are huge.