Hi G&P, just some clues on how to look at the map for an approach to the Iron Age Hill on Burrow hill, which I think to be the most exiting of all these forts in Shropshire. Will you be deemed to be trespassing, that is a bit of a mystery, certainly there have been signs of regular trod by the most direct route to the fort which is the shape of a teardrop on it's side, indicates that locals do walk the route. As no Public Right of Way leads into it, it has remained a bit of a mystery as to the actual status. The route in I suggest is no doubt a short trespass.
A rule of walking I have adopted, yet appears unknown to those writers of walk guides, 'Get to know your Hill', from afar. By starting from Aston on Clun, (hopefully you will be able park in the Kangaroo pub car park) a route out towards Sibden Castle will intersect the ubiquitous Shropshire Way, from the slopes of Hopesay Hill the Burrow can be viewed, perhaps here the feelings of a once safe place to dwell may be planted and an understanding of the entry point that unfolds as you approach, having passed through Hopesay (attractive Church by the way). As you climb to the crest of a ridge that by a collection of fields west of Barlow Home Farm, there may be a field that is Open Access between you and the natural opening to the fort. This is a bit of a mystery? Just beyond a footpath that leads to the right down to Barlow Home Farm, the field margin to the left will lead to the wooded boundary of the hill, about 100yds along this you should find an old 10ft five bar wooden gate. Probably have to climb over it if it is still in a state to do so. Follow the track under hill East and uphill, which curves around leading to the once main entrance to the fort at the rounded end of the teardrop.
Will you feel the ethos of a long lost community? Or will the quandary of lostways, where the shortly to be eradicated rule of once a way always away, now buried under confusing rules to protect the notion of Private Property, defeats our connections to our past, be triggered?
Some year ago a met a couple on Hopesay hill, they had walked from Clun and were doing the Wild Edrich Walk, about the one trail that has been taken up by a commercial holiday company organising hospitality chains. Furnished with detailed and expensive holiday packs they had walked within 3 to 400 yds of this gem on the Shropshire landscape.