Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OLDBURY

OLDBURY, a curious earthwork in Cod ford, St. Mary parish, Wilts; on Cod ford Hill, 4 miles S E of Heytesbury. It is called also Cod ford Circle; it is supposed to have been formed, not for defensive purposes, but by the Druids for religions rites; and it commands a very interesting view.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a curious earthwork"   (ADL Feature Type: "historical sites")
Administrative units: Wiltshire AncC

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