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[[Category:Hill forts in Devon]]
[[Category:Hill forts in Devon]]

Latest revision as of 17:54, 20 January 2018

Cranbrook Castle is an Iron Age hill fort occupying a commanding hilltop on Cranbrook Down in Devon.

The hill rises just to the south of and overlooking the River Teign and the Teign Valley. It is 1,106 feet above sea level[1] and just over a mile south and slightly west of Prestonbury Castle and 2 miles west of Wooston Castle.[2]

References

  1. Outdoor Leisure 28 - Dartmoor. Ordnance Survey. 1995. 
  2. R.R.Sellman; Aspects of Devon History, Devon Books 1985 - ISBN 0-86114-756-1 - Chapter 2; The Iron Age in Devon. Map Page 11 of Iron Age hill forts in Devon includes Wooston, though he describes it as 'unfinished'.

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