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Digging up Beckford's Past

It is in the iron age that Bredon Hill and its environs seem to have had their heyday. The hill contains two definite hillforts, Conderton Camp and the larger Kemerton Camp (which contains the Banbury or Bambury Stone). On the north eastern slopes, there is probably another beneath the site of Elmley Castle. West of Beckford was another settlement at Aston Mills Farm which seems to have been a looser scatter of farmsteads and fields, whereas Beckford was a full blown village with several hundred inhabitants. Major article by Liam Rogers