Folklore

Haughmond Hill Hillfort
Hillfort

This is a bit feeble really.

Haughmond Hill. A reason for the name of this hill is given in the following legend – While the battle of Shrewsbury was being fought, the Queen was looking on from a cluster of trees on the top of the hill. (The legend says that it was Queen Anne, and that she gave the name of Queen Anne’s bower to the place where she was standing; while history shows that she was not Queen at that date.) When she saw that the Royalists were winning she exclaimed, “Amen! the battle is won”! and thus the hill received its name. It was called Amen Hill, later Hamon, which ultimately passed into Haughmond.

From ‘Shropshire Traditions’ in the Wellington Journal, 31st October 1903.