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Image of Haughmond Hill Hillfort by juamei

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juamei Mar 25, 2018

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Haughmond Hill Hillfort

Hillfort

CARL Aug 8, 2011

‘Visited’ 30.7.11

Looking at the O/S map (and having Sophie and Dafydd with me) this was never going to be more than a ‘drive by visit’ with a view from afar.
I drove along the minor road between the hamlets of Uffington and Upton Magna (decent road for a change) and parked at a convenient field gate.
Looking up across the fields the sheer cliff which forms the southern defences of the Hillfort is very impressive – no chance of anyone coming that way!
If you want a closer look, there appears to be a forest track leading to the site from the east?

Haughmond Hill Hillfort

Hillfort

Rhiannon Jan 16, 2025

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.