Monument record 5607/0/1 - Medieval/Post Medieval Hollow Way (Morphed Aerial Archaeology Interpretation)

Earthworks of the Old Cransley to Broughton Road depicted on the late 16th-century map and still in use at the beginning of the 19th century, but had been replaced by the end of the century

{1} The old Broughton road can also be traced across the park south-east of the hall as a broad hollow way, though this may have been used as a later drive to the hall in the C19th.

{3} Old Cransley to Broughton Road. The road was clearly still in use at the time of early OS survey (1810s) and Bryant's survey published in 1827. However by the publication of 1880s First Edition OS mapping Cransley Park had been extended and the road moved eastwards.

{5} There was no indication of the former road to Great Cransley in the geophysical survey corridor.

{6} In use up to c.1830.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.29/Site 8 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<2> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, Used with NMR & CUCAP collections (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1811-9, First Edition Ordnance Survey Surveyors Drawings, Sheet 268 (Map). SNN104902.

<4> Treswell R., 1598, Cransley Parish Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN103920.

<5> Walford, J.; Butler, A.; Mudd, A. & Harding, J., 2006, AWS Empingham to Hannington Pipeline: Archaeological geophysical and metal detecting surveys Phase 1 August - September 2006, p. 9 (Report). SNN108019.

<6> Richmond A., 2012, Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment: Land at Cransley Hill, Broughton, Northamptonshire, 2012, p. 27 (Report). SNN108550.

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