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Old Oswestry Hillfort

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Day of reckoning for Old Oswestry Hillfort

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A 10-year battle to protect the landscape of one of Britain’s most important Iron Age hillforts from widely opposed development comes to a head later today.
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Calls for hillfort housing decision to go to planning committee

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Campaigners have escalated public concerns over the controversial bid to build housing in the setting of Old Oswestry hillfort.
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Planners are not listening, claim Oswestry hillfort campaigners

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Campaigners have slammed the local planning system as they rally against a new bid to build in the setting of Old Oswestry hillfort.
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Excavation carried out at Old Oswestry Hillfort

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Volunteers from the Oswestry Heritage Gateway have completed a small excavation at the Iron Age hillfort on the northern outskirts of Oswestry.
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MP visits Old Oswestry Hillfort to hear residents’ concerns over nearby housing bid

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North Shropshire MP Helen Morgan visited Old Oswestry hillfort earlier this week in response to residents’ concerns over plans for a luxury housing estate in the near landscape setting of the Iron Age landmark.
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Revised housing plans do nothing to avert terminal damage to Old Oswestry Hillfort, say campaigners

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After a two-year silence, developers are mounting a fourth bid to build housing in the landscape setting of one of Britain’s pre-eminent Iron Age hillforts.
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Woolly friends keep conservation efforts going on Shropshire hillfort during coronavirus lockdown

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The country may have been on lockdown since March, but landscape maintenance at Old Oswestry hillfort has been boosted by the arrival of a new breed of helper.
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Outcry as Historic England’s defence folds over major Oswestry housing development

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Campaigners are up in arms at news that Historic England has relaxed its concerns over development in the historic landscape of Old Oswestry hillfort.
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