Caer Caradoc (Chapel Lawn)

Caer Caradoc (Chapel Lawn) (Welsh – Caer Caradog) is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument[1] in the south-west of the English county of Shropshire, near the town of Clun. It overlooks the village of Chapel Lawn.[2] It is located within an area of Open Access land and can be reached via a public footpath between the farms of Wax Hall to the west and Bryncambric to the east.[2]

3D view of the digital terrain model

Looking towards Caer Caradoc hill fort from Chapel Lawn

View east from Caer Caradoc hill fort

Aerial photo of Caer Caradoc

This hill fort has the same name as another, Caer Caradoc near Church Stretton, also in Shropshire but 16 miles (26 km) to the north-east.

References

Historic England. "Caer Caradoc: a small multivallate hillfort (1021067)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
201 Knighton & Presteigne (Map). 1:25000. Explorer. Ordnance Survey.

Iron Age hillforts in England
Bedfordshire	Mowsbury Hill Maiden Bower
Berkshire	Bussock Camp Caesar's Camp Grimsbury Castle Membury Camp Perborough Castle Walbury Camp
Bristol	Clifton Camp Kings Weston Hill
Buckinghamshire	Cholesbury Camp Desborough Castle
Cambridgeshire	Stonea Camp Wandlebury Ring
Cheshire	Bradley Eddisbury Helsby Hill Kelsborrow Castle Maiden Castle Oakmere Woodhouse Hill
Cornwall	Black Head Cadson Bury Caer Bran Castallack Round Castle an Dinas Castle Dore Castle Goff Chûn Castle Dodman Point Giant's Castle Kelly Rounds Kelsey Head Lescudjack Lesingey Round Maen Castle Padderbury Top Prideaux Castle Rame Head The Rumps Trencrom Hill Trereen Dinas Treryn Dinas Trevelgue Head Warbstow Bury
Cumbria	Carrock Fell Castle Crag
Derbyshire	Fin Cop Mam Tor
Dorset	Abbotsbury Castle Badbury Rings Banbury Hill Buzbury Rings Chalbury Hillfort Coney's Castle Dudsbury Camp Dungeon Hill Eggardon Hill Flower's Barrow Hambledon Hill Hod Hill Lambert's Castle Lewesdon Hill Maiden Castle Pilsdon Pen Poundbury Hill Woodbury Hill Woolsbarrow
East Sussex	Hollingbury Castle Mount Caburn
Essex	Ambresbury Banks Danish Camp Loughton Camp
Gloucestershire	Cleeve Hill Kimsbury Camp Uley Bury
Greater Manchester	Mellor hill fort
Hampshire	Ashleys Copse Buckland Rings Bury Hill Caesar's Camp Castle Hill Chilworth Ring Danebury Dunwood Camp Frankenbury Camp The Frith Gorley Hill Hamble Common Camp King John's Hill Knoll Camp Ladle Hill Lockerley Camp Norsebury Ring Old Winchester Hill Oram's Arbour Quarley Hill St. Catherine's Hill Tidbury Ring Toothill Fort Whitsbury Castle Woolbury
Herefordshire	Aconbury Camp Brandon Camp British Camp Capler Camp Croft Ambrey Dinedor Camp Garmsley Camp Ivington Camp Poston Camp Sutton Walls Wapley Hill
Hertfordshire	Arbury Banks Wilbury Hill Camp
Kent	Bigbury Camp Oldbury Camp
Lancashire	Castercliff Portfield Warton Crag
Leicestershire	Burrough Hill
Norfolk	Bloodgate Hill Holkham Camp Warham Camp
North Yorkshire	Eston Nab Maiden Castle Stanwick Camp
Northamptonshire	Borough Hill Hunsbury Hill Rainsborough Camp
Northumberland	Castle Knowe Humbleton Hill Yeavering Bell
Oxfordshire	Blewburton Hill Cherbury Camp Hardwell Castle Uffington Castle
Shropshire	Bayston Hill Bury Ditches Bury Walls Caer Caradoc, Church Stretton Caer Caradog, Chapel Lawn Caus Castle Coxall Knoll Nordy Bank Old Oswestry The Wrekin
South Yorkshire	Carl Wark Wincobank
Staffordshire	Berry Ring Berth Hill Bury Bank Castle Ring Kinver Edge Hillfort
Surrey	Caesar's Camp Hascombe Hill Holmbury Hill
West Sussex	Chanctonbury Ring Cissbury Ring Goosehill Camp Harting Beacon Highdown Hill Thundersbarrow Hill The Trundle Torberry Hill
West Yorkshire	Castle Hill
Wiltshire	Ashleys Copse Barbury Castle Battlesbury Camp Bratton Castle Bury Camp Castle Ditches Casterley Camp Castle Rings Chisbury Chiselbury Chisenbury Camp Clearbury Ring Cley Hill Fosbury Camp Grovely Castle Knook Castle Liddington Castle Membury Camp Old Sarum Ringsbury Camp Scratchbury Camp Sidbury Hill Vespasian's Camp Yarnbury Castle
Worcestershire	Berrow Hill Camp Berry Mound Bredon Hill British Camp Conderton Camp Drakelow Gadbury Bank Hanbury Hill Headless Cross Midsummer Hill Woodbury Hill Wychbury Ring

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