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. 



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Oakley 



Wood 



ENLARGED SECTION , 

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TACHBROOK 



about A.D. 1875, after Burgess 



SCALE OF FEET 

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TACHBROOK (3 miles south-west of Warwick). An entrench- 

 ment in good preservation and of considerable size lies in Oakley Wood, 

 on the right-hand side of the Warwick and Banbury Road, about i 

 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. 



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



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