Grim's Ditch, Charlbury

Grim's Ditch at Ditchley

Grim's Dyke is a series of ancient earthworks found near Charlbury in south-western Oxfordshire. It is visible today as a shallow ditch and a raised area south of North Leigh (accessible from a footpath from New Yatt).

• Location map: 51°53’8"N, 1°26’40"W

Grim's Ditch is a series of discrete linear earthworks dated to the Iron Age which together make up at least one segmented circuit, between the valleys of the Rivers Evenlode, Glyme and Windrush in the eastern Cotswolds.

The works can be seen in woodland, to the west of Stonesfield near the boundary wall of Blenheim Park, from which point the line of the earthwork runs north near Grim's Dyke Farm at Glympton Assets, through the woods to the north of that village and south east of Ditchley Park.

References

• Copeland, Tim: 'The North Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch: a Fieldwork Survey': Oxoniensia
• National Heritage List 1012902: Section of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch running east from the River Evenlode opposite Cornbury Park
• National Heritage List 1014708: Section of the north Oxfordshire Grim's Ditch at Model Farm on the Ditchley Park Estate