Farway Castle
A circular Iron Age bank and ditch on the Farway plateau, most likely a farmstead rather than a fort
Access unclearno public right of way confirmed — check locally before setting out
Earthworks onlybanks, ditches and platforms — read the ground, not walls
Farway Castle is a ring of earth about 53 metres across, thrown up as a bank with a ditch outside it, on the high greensand plateau above the Coly and the Sid. The bank still stands about half a metre above the ground inside, with a flat top and a steep outer face dropping straight into the ditch. Historic England lists it as an earthwork enclosure and reckons it an Iron Age farmstead rather than anything defensive, which the name rather oversells. It survives unusually well for its type.
Trees have grown up over it, so there is not much to look at beyond the shape of the ground. The round barrow cemetery on Farway Country Park is close by, and Blackbury Castle is four kilometres south.
More at the National Heritage List entry
