Monument record 4251/1 - Medieval fishponds, north of Hospital Farm

Two trapezoidal fishponds lie to the North-West of Hospital Farm. Within the bounds of land assumed to have belonged to Thorpe Underwood, and presumably associated with it.

{1} Earthwork, visible on aerial photograph taken in 1980, of 3 fishponds. NCC Aerial Photograph: SP 7981/ 1-4

{4} Fishponds (SP 792812), lie immediately NW of Hospital Farm, in a narrow valley, on Upper Lias clay at 115 m. above OD. They are just inside the assumed boundary of the land of Thorpe Underwood and are thus probably associated with that settlement. They consist of two trapezoidal ponds, now dry, arranged end-on to each other in the valley bottom. They are cut some 2 m. into the hillside and have large dams, up to 2 m. high, on their downslope sides.

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

<2> Hall D.N., 1960-1999, Rockingham Forest Project: Archaeological Sites Recorded by David Hall, (unchecked) (Database). SNN102279.

<3> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, RAF VAP F22 82/RAF/865, 0313-4 (Photographs). SNN104890.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 131 site 9 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77380.

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Feb 25 2025 6:17PM