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A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE

found a number of ancient oaks growing in the interior. He says that there was a tradition in the neighbourhood in his day that a 'castle' was 'long since situated' within the moats; this would probably give the name to the Castle Lane which still approaches the entrenchments from Ulverlie Green.[1] Most probably the structure surrounded by these strong double ramparts and ditches was only of wood.

Tachbrook (3 miles south-west of Warwick). An entrenchment in good preservation and of considerable size lies in Oakley Wood, on the right-hand side of the Warwick and Banbury Road, about 1¼ miles south-south-east of the parish church of Bishop's Tachbrook. It is upon fairly level ground between Ashorne Hill to the south and some rounded elevations in Tachbrook to the north.

  1. ↑ Dugdale's Warw. p. 662; Hannett, Forest of Arden, pp. 278-80.

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