The very prominent Backbury seen from the Wye Valley Walk near Hope Springs to the south.
Image credit: A. Brookes (20.8.2022)
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A long-ago landslip has obliterated much of the eastern defences, but there is still enough to see how formidable this site was.
Image credit: A. Brookes (12.4.2014)
Image credit: A. Brookes (12.4.2014)
Eastern ramparts.
Image credit: A. Brookes (12.4.2014)
Very overgrown, but the site has huge charm.
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Eastern ramparts.
Image credit: A. Brookes (12.4.2014)
At the southeastern corner of the fort.
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The southeastern ramparts.
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Looking down from the inner southern rampart to the outer.
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Circular feature found in the overgrown interior. Quarry pit or remains of something like a hut circle?
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The southwestern entrance (likely to be one of two original entrances) cuts through the inner bank.
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Western ramparts, looking south.
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Loooking along the ditch below the inner rampart, rising steeply on the right. There is a slight counterscarp. The ground drops away steeply again on the left, down to the outer defences.
Image credit: A. Brookes (12.4.2014)
Articles
About a mile and a half from [Stoke Edith] Mansion, on the south-west, and ocupying the summit of a commanding eminence, is St Ethelbert’s Camp, said, by popular tradition, to be the spot where Ethelbert pitched his tents when on his journey to the Court of King Offa.*
p590 of ‘The Beauties of England and Wales’ v6 (1805).
The Herefordshire on-line SMR says that the Ordnance survey first changed the name on the map to ‘Backbury’ in 1926. Landslides have obscured the defences in places.
*Sadly that was where he met his fate, at Sutton Walls.
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Cherry Hill Camp
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Capler Camp
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Rotherwas Ribbon
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Dinedor Camp
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Wergins Stone
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Oldbury Camp
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Sutton Walls
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Aconbury
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Wall Hills Camp (Ledbury)
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Hill Croft Field
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Bradlow Knoll
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Gamber Head
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Eaton Camp
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Kilbury Camp
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Haffield Camp (Donnington)
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Dinmore Camp
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Credenhill Camp
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Tillington Common
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Cradley Camp
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Stanford Bishop
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Chase Wood Hill
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St Weonard’s Tump
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Risbury Camp
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The Colwall Stone
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British Camp
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Waum's Well and Clutter's Cave
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Midsummer Hill
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Canon Pyon
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Shire Ditch
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Westington Camp
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Colwall barrows
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Bush Bank
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Ivington Camp
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North Hill and Table Hill, Malvern
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Uphampton Camp
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Garway Hill
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Timberline Camp