The Gatehouse website record for Temple Hill, Stratford Upon Avon

In the civil parish of Stratford Upon Avon. In the historic county of Warwickshire (Modern Authority of Warwickshire, 1974 county of Warwickshire).

Temple Hill or Castle Hill. Mound associated with a C19 landscape park, it has been suggested that it may originally have been a motte. Not near Church but by DMV of Welcombe. Temple Hill is a large isolated mainly natural mound, with a flattened top and a spiral path up to it. In its present form it is obviously a landscape feature connected with the 1869 Welcombe mansion; but it is an ideal motte (though the landscaping has destroyed any definite evidence) and its actually being such is borne out by the fact that - 1. its traditional name is 'Castle Hill, 2. Welcombe Estate was the chief manor of Old Stratford in surveys of c1182 and 1252, 3. finds on the mound (PRN 1016). [Finds are human burial and 'ancient weapon' which is C15-C17 pole arm]

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP20895663

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 333135
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 1015; 1016 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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