Grim's Ditch, Charlbury

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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).

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.

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