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Day of reckoning for Shropshire hillfort

July 26, 2023 Old Oswestry 0

A 10-year battle to protect the landscape of one of Britain’s most important Iron Age hillforts from widely opposed development comes to a head this […]

PRESS RELEASE: Shropshire MP backs calls for hillfort housing decision to go to planning committee

April 27, 2023 Old Oswestry 0

Campaigners have escalated public concerns over the controversial bid to build housing in the setting of Old Oswestry hillfort by calling-in the planning application for […]

PRESS RELEASE: Planners are not listening, claim hillfort campaigners

February 14, 2023 Old Oswestry 0

Campaigners have slammed the local planning system as they rally against a new bid to build in the setting of Old Oswestry hillfort. HOOOH has […]

NEWS: Small excavation at OId Oswestry Hillfort 20-23 Sep 2022

September 12, 2022 Old Oswestry 0

Oswestry Heritage Gateway will be undertaking a small excavation from 20th – 23rd September 2022 to re-examine a roundhouse found by Professor Varley in 1940. […]

Old Oswestry – Geophysical Investigations 2021

September 12, 2022 Old Oswestry 0

Abstract This report describes the results of an archaeological geophysical investigation undertaken at the site of Old Oswestry Hillfort near Oswestry, Shropshire. The investigations were […]

PRESS RELEASE: MP visits Old Oswestry Hillfort to hear residents’ concerns over nearby housing bid

May 5, 2022 Old Oswestry 0

North Shropshire MP Helen Morgan visited Old Oswestry hillfort earlier this week (3 May 2022) in response to residents’ concerns over plans for a luxury […]

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PRESS RELEASE: Revised housing plans do nothing to avert terminal damage to archaeological jewel

March 24, 2022 Old Oswestry 0

Revised housing plans do nothing to avert terminal damage to archaeological jewel, say campaigners. After a two-year silence, developers are mounting a fourth bid to […]

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PRESS RELEASE: Excavations at Old Oswestry Hillfort

September 26, 2021 Old Oswestry 0

With permission from Historic England a team of local volunteers from English Heritage and Oswestry Heritage Gateway (OHG) have just completed a week long dig […]

PRESS RELEASE: Woolly friends keep conservation efforts going on Shropshire hillfort during coronavirus lockdown

June 16, 2020 Old Oswestry 0

The country may have been on lockdown since March, but landscape maintenance at Old Oswestry hillfort has been boosted by the arrival of a new […]

PRESS RELEASE: Outcry as Historic England’s defence folds over major housing development in setting of one of Britain’s outstanding hillforts

May 4, 2020 Old Oswestry 2

– Historic England deals late blow to community’s 8-year fight to save the setting of one of Britain’s outstanding Iron Age hillforts from housing development […]

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