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A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



very extensive views of the country round are obtained, embracing a circle of 

 some sixty miles, whence the approach of an invader would be seen at a far 

 distance. It is a natural hill, fairly round in form, which rises 3 5 ft. above the 

 level of the road immediately at its foot ; in all it is 275 ft. above the sea-level. 

 The camp is on the north side of the hill and follows the natural con- 

 tour ; it is elongated in plan, the long axis being east and west, depending 



largely for its strength on the escarpment of the 

 hill. Some distance from the summit, on the north 

 side, is an outer defence or terrace of more erratic 

 curves following the natural line of the hill, its 

 very irregularity enhancing its strategical importance. 

 The important question of a water-supply was 

 overcome in this instance by the rise of a small 

 tributary to the River Trent, which flows to the 

 east of the camp. 



About ij miles to the south-west passes an 

 ancient road from Lincoln, via Littleborough, to 

 Doncaster, which is embraced in the Vlth and 

 VHIth Iters of Antoninus. 

 This site was occupied by Prince Rupert in 1644 when he routed the 

 Parliamentary army and succoured Newark Castle. 



GROVE. Part of the earthworks on Castle Hill is in this parish, but 

 the whole is treated of above under the parish of East Retford. 





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BEACON HILL CAMP, 

 GRINGLEY ON THE HILL. 



WINNY HILL CAMP, MANSFIELD WOODHOUSB. 



MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE : WINNY HILL CAMP. A small eminence to 

 the north-east of Mansfield Woodhouse and if miles north-north-west of 



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