Brandon Camp

Nearest town:
Knighton (11km WSW)
OS reference:
SO400724
OS sheets:
137, 148
Latitude:
52° 20' 45.36 N
Longitude:
2° 52' 51.21 W
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Image of Brandon Camp (Hillfort) by juamei

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juamei
juamei Mar 25, 2018

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Brandon Camp

C
CARL Aug 11, 2011

Visited10.8.11

The last site of our trip to Shropshire visiting a couple more English Heritage sites.
I missed this site on the way up to Telford but managed to visit it on the way home.
Heading south towards the hamlet of Adforton, there are plenty of field gates you can park in front of just after the A4113 forks with the A4110.
Park on the verge, up and over the gate and basically head up hill.
Warning – this does involve climbing over two barbed wire fences.

As for the Hillfort itself there isn’t a massive amount to see although the ramparts in places are still up to 2 metres high.
The remaining defences consist of a single bank which runs in an arc around the eastern side on the site. The western defences appear to have relied on the steepness of the slope. The bank varies in height from 0.3 metres to a maximum of 2 metres.

The fields are now used for grazing sheep.
Just about worth the effort. No public right of access.

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Brandon Camp
Hillfort
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 2, 2009

From “Herefordshire Register of Countryside Treasures” (1918 H&WCC):

“Brandon Camp, Adforton

Approximately 3/4 acre Hill Fort with roughly triangular enclosure, having rounded angles and slightly curved sides with three entrances.

Location

At N end of Lowhill and 3/4 mile N of Church above River Teme at Adforton.”

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