Dray’s Ditches

Nearest town:
Luton (5km SSE)
OS reference:
TL088264
OS sheet:
166
Latitude:
51° 55' 29.93 N
Longitude:
0° 25' 3.38 W
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Images

Image of Dray’s Ditches (Dyke) by Rhiannon

Galley Hill on the left (with barrows, somewhere), Warden Hill on the right, and Drays Ditches would be somewhere in the middle. The Icknield Way passes along the front.

Rhiannon
Rhiannon Dec 28, 2006

Articles

Dray’s Ditches

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Neil-NewX Dec 28, 2006

Apparent boundary earthwork (Scheduled Ancient Monument) at foot of Warden Hill and Galley Hill (bronze age barrows on top of latter), close to Icknield Way

‘One of these Iron Age dykes lies on the [Luton] Borough boundary near Warden Hill. It is known as Drays Ditches and consisted of three V shaped ditches, each 6 feet deep and 15 feet wide, separated from each other by massive palisades of posts and packed chalk.‘

The Story of Luton (1964) – J. Dyer, F. Stygall and J. Dony

Miscellaneous

Dray’s Ditches
Dyke
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Dec 28, 2006

In 1540 Leland described Dray’s Ditches, three miles north of Luton, as “longe trenches, as they had been for Men of warre”.

I have not read the original, but found this exerpt in Notes and Queries for January 1962, p2.

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