Mowsbury Hill

Mowsbury Hill is a 2.8 hectare Local Nature Reserve and Scheduled Monument in north Bedford. It is owned and managed by Bedford Borough Council with the assistance of the Friends of Putnoe Wood and Mowsbury Hillfort.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Archaeological excavation has shown that the site is a univallate(having a single rampart) hillfort, and pottery dates to the early Iron Age, occupied for a limited period. In medieval times it was a moated settlement with two fishponds in the Manor of Morinsbury.^[4] The site is also an old orchard with a wildflower meadow, woodland, scrub, a moat and ponds.^[1]

There is access from the Mowsbury Golf Course car park on Cleat Hill.

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References

1 2 "Mowsbury Hill". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
↑ "Map of Mowsbury Hill". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
↑ "Home page". Friends of Putnoe Wood and Mowsbury Hillfort. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
↑ "Mowsbury Hill: slight univallate hillfort and medieval moated site". Historic England. Retrieved 1 November 2015.

Coordinates: 52°10′02″N 0°26′31″W / 52.167221°N 0.442078°W / 52.167221; -0.442078

Local Nature Reserves in Bedfordshire

Bedford	Bromham Lake Browns Wood Fenlake Meadows Harrold-Odell Country Park Hill Rise Mowsbury Hill Park Wood Putnoe Wood

Central Bedfordshire	Cooper's Hill Cottage Bottom Fields Flitton Moor Flitwick Wood Henlow Common and Langford Meadows Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows Marston Thrift Maulden Church Meadow The Riddy Stotfold Mill Meadows Totternhoe Knolls

Luton	Galley and Warden Hills

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