Trewsbury

Also known as:
Trewsbury Camp and Trewsbury Castle
Nearest town:
Cirencester (4km ENE)
OS reference:
ST981998
OS sheet:
163
Latitude:
51° 41' 47.15 N
Longitude:
2° 1' 38.98 W
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Image of Trewsbury (Hillfort) by juamei

Image Credit: Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015.

Image credit: Open Source Environment Agency LIDAR
juamei
juamei Mar 25, 2018
Image of Trewsbury (Hillfort) by thesweetcheat

The spring source of the Thames, at the southern tip of the fort. The spring itself is the small pile of stones in the left foreground of the picture.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.1.2010)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 3, 2010

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Trewsbury

tjj
tjj Feb 28, 2012

Tried to visit this hillfort today while out walking around the Coates area. Have to report defeat on this one though note thesweetcheat managed it. We were heading for the ‘source’ of the Thames which seems significantly very close to the hillfort. Entering by a gate through woodland (no ‘private’ notices though it felt private) we came up against a deep walled ditch – so turned back. The OS map shows Trewsbury House inside the hillfort:
britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-129296-trewsbury-house-coates/osmap

Quite unusual and made us less inclined to press on – could also hear what sounded like a flock of geese ...

We found the ‘source’ of the Thames marked by a large granite stone – now a dry spring.

Trewsbury

thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jan 3, 2010

Passed this low-lying fort after a trip to Windmill Tump today. Approached from the west along the disused Thames and Severn Canal. The west side of the fort (which is all I saw as the rest is on private land) appears to be a steep bank, but as the canal ran alongside it’s difficult to know what was fort and what was canal engineering.

Of interest is the fact that the spring source of the River Thames is at the southern tip of the fort. As the Thames was venerated by the Iron Age people (witness the number of swords and other offerings thrown in further downstream), it may be that this had some significance in the siting of the fort.

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