Undated earthwork, Loxley
The site of an earthwork of unknown date. It may well be a natural feature. It runs, intermittently from Walton to Loxley.
1 A remarkable line of double and sometimes triple entrenchments running through this parish, traceable for a total length of over three miles. The earthworks extend along the N face of the hills overlooking the valley of Avon. They commence near Walton (around SP2853) pass through the wood around the summit of Redhill (SP2753) and by Loxley (SP2552) until they reach Goldicote (SP2451). The entrenchments are very formidable in places, consisting of three ramparts, one above the other, with two intervening ditches… they are too formidable for a mere boundary line.
2 These entrenchments are now believed to be natural. Their traditional name probably survives in a field called Chilversditch near their W extremity.
3 These ‘entrenchments’ are a natural escarpment and are not an antiquity.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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