South Gloucestershire Council

In South Gloucestershire there are currently 37 scheduled monuments. These sites range from prominent hillforts such as Sodbury Camp (a large multivallate hillfort) to bridges and churchyard crosses. No works to a scheduled monument can occur without express permission from Historic England. This relates to both above and below ground works. The procedure is known as Scheduled Monument Consent or SMC. ‘Works’ are defined by the 1979 Act as demolishing, destroying, damaging, removing, repairing, altering, adding to, flooding or tipping material onto the monument. To avoid the possibility of damaging a monument, and therefore carrying out unlawful works, you are strongly advised to consult Historic England while in the early planning stages of any intended works.

Below are links to further information for each of the scheduled monuments:

• Acton Court Manor and Garden Latteridge Road, Iron Acton
• Badminton Park Roman Villa
• Bloody Acre Camp, Harriss Woods, Cromhall
• Bury Hill Camp, Winterbourne
• Camp Hill Hillfort, Rockhampton
• Churchyard Cross, St. James Church, Iron Acton
• Churchyard Cross, St. Leonards Church, Tortworth
• Brandy Bottom (Parkfield South) Colliery, Pucklechurch
• Dyrham Camp (Hinton Hillfort)
• Elberton Camp, Old Down Farm, Elberton
• Fishponds Park Farm, Thornbury
• Freezing Hill Earthwork, Lansdown, Cold Ashton, Doynton
• Hillfort Little Abbey Camp, Alveston
• Horton Camp, Upper Widdenhill Farm, Horton
• King Edmunds Palace, Castle Road, Pucklechurch
• Lapdown Barn, Round Barrows, Tormarton
• Moated site, Barrs Court, Longwell Green, Oldland
• Oldbury Camp Iron Age hillfort, Oldbury-on-Severn
• Olveston Court moat complex and earthworks
• Oval enclosure on Strode Common, Olveston
• Ram Hill Colliery Coalpit Heath Westerleigh
• Roman camp, Golden Valley Lane, Bitton
• Roman Villa and Bathhouse Lower Woods Wickwar
• Roman Villa north-west of Tapwell Bridge, Cromhall
• Roman Villa Springfield Farm
• Round Barrow, Barrow Hill, Bitton
• Round Barrow, Shortwood Hill, Pucklechurch
• Round Barrow, Vattingstone Lane, Alveston Down, Olveston
• Ruins of St. Helens Church, Rudgeway
• Sodbury Camp, Little Sodbury
• Starveall Long, Barrow Bangel Wood, Hawkesbury
• Starveall Round, Barrow Bangel Wood, Hawkesbury
• The Castle, Tytherington
• Thornbury Castle, Thornbury
• West Littleton Down, Round Barrow
• Wickwar Roman Town Hall End Wickwar
• William Champion’s brassworks, Warmley, Siston

Planning Permission and Scheduled Monument Consent

Certain development works to your property may require planning permission from the council, but obtaining such permission does not remove the need for Scheduled Monument Consent. The South West Office of Historic England can be contacted at:
Historic England
29 Queen Square
Bristol BS1 4ND
Telephone: 0117 975 1308
Fax: 0117 975 0701
Email: southwest@HistoricEngland.org.uk