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 found a number of ancient oaks growing in the interior. He says that there was a tradition in the neighbourhood in his day that a 'castle' was 'long since situated' within the moats; this would probably give the name to the Castle Lane which still approaches the entrenchments from Ulverlie Green. Most probably the structure surrounded by these strong double ramparts and ditches was only of wood.

(3 miles south-west of Warwick). An entrenchment in good preservation and of considerable size lies in Oakley Wood, on the right-hand side of the Warwick and Banbury Road, about 1¼ miles south-south-east of the parish church of Bishop's Tachbrook. It is upon fairly level ground between Ashorne Hill to the south and some rounded elevations in Tachbrook to the north.