Fladbury

A Beaker settlement was discovered in the centre of Fladbury during excavations into Saxon occupation. Excavations of the Beaker site took place from 1932 to 1941. There are the remains of a Roman polyfocal farmstead settlement with prehistoric origins on the site of the current Spring Hill Farm. The local soil is mostly light clay with a little sand; the subsoil is Lower Lias This made the area good farming land producing crops of wheat, beans, barley, hops, market garden produce and fruit. Vines were formerly grown at Fladbury. The name Fladbury derives from the Old English Flaedeburh meaning 'Flaede's fortification'. Fladbury was a settlement mentioned in Domesday Book, in the hundred of…