Monument record 1335/0/2 - Saxon to medieval wood banks

Possible medieval or post-medieval curving boundary ditches are visible as cropmarks on historic aerial photographs. Located over 2 parliamentary inclosed fields about 525 metres NNE of Bozeat Grange, the sinuous ditches extend over 750 metres NW-SE and 175 metres SW-NE. The cropmark ditches appear to link to medieval fields extant on the 1st Edition OS map which formed assarts on the edge of former Bozeat Wood, which is recorded on 1815 OS maps, but which appears to have been mostly cleared by 1885.

{1} Boundary ditches defining woods part extant in the post medieval period. NCC Aerial Photograph No. SP9057/9-10

{2} Ditches (SP 904572) fig 46, N of Bozeat Grange on Boulder Clay at 99m above OD. Air photographs (in NMR) show three curving ditches.

{3-6} Possible medieval or post-medieval boundary ditches are visible as cropmarks on historic aerial photographs and were mapped as part of the Bedford Borough NMP project. Located over 2 parliamentary inclosed fields, about 525 metres NNE of Bozeat Grange and centred at SP 90438 57107, the sinuous ditches extend over an area about 750 metres NW-SE and 175 metres SW-NE. The cropmark ditches appear to link to medieval fields extant on the 1st Edition OS map which formed assart boundaries on the edge of former Bozeat Wood, which is recorded on 1815 maps, but which appears to have been mostly cleared by 1885.

<1> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 4 site 12 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77380.

<3> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, RAF/CPE/UK/1994 FS 2196 13-APR-1947 (Photographs). SNN104890.

<4> Bedford Borough Council HER, 1968, Georeferenced composite layer of vertical aerial photographs taken in 1968. Held by Bedford Borough Council HER (Archive). SNN112712.

<5> Bedford Borough Council HER, 1996, Georeferenced composite layer of vertical aerial photographs taken in 1996. Held by Bedford Borough Council HER (Archive). SNN111739.

<6> Ordnance Survey Map (Scale/date), Ordnance Survey 1:2500 scale Epoch 1 map Northamptonshire dated 1885 (Map). SNN112944.

<7> Bedford Borough Council HER, Undated, Bedford Borough NMP, MD003015 (Archive). SNN113023.

<8> Ordnance Survey, 1811-9, First Edition Ordnance Survey Surveyors Drawings, Sheet 233w; ACCESSED 30-JAN-2019 (Map). SNN104902.

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Feb 25 2025 6:24PM