Monument record 5237 - The Park

{1} Immediately adjacent to the manor house in 1725 there was a large enclosure called The Park. This is most likely to have been established as a landscape park in the early 18th or 17th centuries as an adjunct to the adjacent manor house, rather than having any earlier origins. The area contains earthwork evidence of ridge and furrow and close boundaries. It is unclear whether a tenement row existed here in the medieval period along the street to the south of the park but if so then its desertion may have been largely complete as a result of the decline of the settlement in the later 14th and 15th centuries rather than a case of large scale enforced depopulation for imparking in the postmedieval period.

<1> Foard G, 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Brigstock (Medieval + Post Medieval), (checked) (Digital archive). SNN100441.

<2> 1725, Brigstock Survey, (unchecked) (Map). SNN100446.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1950s, Ordnance Survey 2.5 Inch Series (General), SP98 (unchecked) (Map). SNN54933.

<4> Foard G., 2000, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Brigstock, (unchecked) (Report). SNN101571.

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Aug 19 2014 1:20PM