What is recorded here
Cotterellsbooly holds a forty-four-metre circular fort where trees now break through the ancient earth. The boundary has resisted every human claim for centuries, marking the exact distance the living world may approach before transforming into fantasy. Most people walk past because they expect ordinary history, but the land keeps its own shape and refuses to explain itself.
Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and it is shown on the 1948 revision as a roughly circular enclosure (overall diam. c. 44m). There are trees growing around the perimeter and in the interior.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 4 April 2023
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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