'Visited' 20.3.11
After visiting Castle Combe (self proclaimed 'the prettiest village in England' – a statement hard to argue with) I thought I would seek out Green Farm Long Barrow.
Although I couldn't find any trace of it, it didn't seem to matter as I enjoyed a lovely stroll along a country lane with the sun on my back, the sky blue and butterflies and primroses in abundance. All the while feeding Sophie her bottle and peaking through hedgerows looking for a Barrow!
Somehow I feel there's not going to be much you can see here. But it's a long barrow between the relatively intact Lugbury and Lanhill long barrows, so I felt it was worth mentioning. It is a scheduled monument (since 1999) and is described on Magic as being a rounded long mound up to 1.5m high, and about 57m long (it's been spread out by ploughing). "The barrow from which Green Barrow Farm takes its name is recorded in Scrope's
History of Castle Combe as a long oblong mound, levelled by its owner in 1852."
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