Barbury
Castle Country Park
From the ramparts of the Iron Age hill fort, where the wind nearly
always blows, you can look down on the bustle of Swindon sprawling below
you. You have escaped from the urban rush to this link with the past.
Here the Celts farmed, the Iron age Britons struggled to build the
enclosing ditches of the hill fort and 18th and 19th century labourers
hacked flints from the steep slopes creating strange hollows and dips.
These predecessors inadvertantly created the special place that exists
today, as the slopes of the hill fort are now covered with wild flowers
hardly ever seen in the wider countryside, Wild Thyme, Squinancywort,
Eyebright, and Purging Flax. Go there and hear the sky lark sing. |
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