VOLUNTEERS: Hillfort Management Day with English Heritage – 6th March 2025
FROM ENGLISH HERITAGE… A call for volunteers to help English Heritage with management on the hillfort, cutting down scrub and tidying up, this Thursday, 6th […]
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VOLUNTEERS: Hillfort Management Day with English Heritage – 7th Nov 2024
FROM ENGLISH HERITAGE… On Thursday 7th November 2024 10.00 – 15.00 Hillfort Management Day If you would like to participate, please let us know ASAP […]
NEWS: Small excavation at OId Oswestry Hillfort 20-23 Sep 2022
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. […]
PRESS RELEASE: Campaigners braced for revised plans for hillfort estate after developer shelves latest scheme
Campaigners say they are ready to fight on as Galliers Homes withdraws plans for a 100-house estate in the near landscape of Old Oswestry hillfort […]
Response Letter for objecting to the proposed development in the setting of Old Oswestry Hillfort…
Maintaining objections to proposed development damaging the setting of Old Oswestry hillfort Shropshire Local Plan Review Consultation Preferred Scale and Distribution of Development, October 2017 […]
PRESS RELEASE: Heritage icon to wildlife haven: seminar explores Old Oswestry’s diverse role within Shropshire’s landscape
Heritage, wildlife and ecology experts will explore the importance of Old Oswestry hillfort as a ‘living monument’ at a forthcoming seminar. From Celtic settlers to […]
PRESS RELEASE: More hugs planned for Oswestry’s inspirational hillfort
The love just grows and grows for Old Oswestry hillfort. Shropshire councillors may have voted to throw open its ancient landscape to development, but defiant […]
PRESS RELEASE: World War 1 commemoration made ‘bargaining chip’ in hillfort housing bid
A major World War One commemoration is in doubt after being used as leverage for housing in the shadow of Old Oswestry hillfort, campaigners have […]
PRESS RELEASE – Legal expert makes fact-finding visit to threatened hillfort
A specialist planning lawyer has met with campaigners to discuss the prospect of legal action against development affecting the setting of Old Oswestry hillfort. The […]
PRESS RELEASE – Council blind spot over hillfort housing jeopardises county plan, warn campaigners
Shropshire Council is gambling with public money and elector confidence by keeping housing allocations by Old Oswestry hillfort in its development masterplan, say campaigners. The […]