Monument record 5369 - Open Field System, Alderton

{1} The common fields of Alderton were enclosed by an Act of Parliament of 1819. At that time the deer park and other old enclosures to the north occupied the south west of the parish, but the rest was divided into three large fields, Plumpton Field to the west and south west of the village, Twyford Field to the north and Burch Field to the east. On an earlier map of 1726 the same area of open fields is depicted and though no fieldnames are given all the furlongs are shown and named.
Very little ridge and furrow is visible in the former Alderton parish either on the ground or on air photographs. What can be traced appears to be arranged in end-on and interlocked furlongs of normal form and agrees with the furlongs shown on the 1726 map. One small area of ridge and furrow in the north west of the parish (SP738478) was known as Windmill Leys in 1726. Ridge and furrow can also be traced south of the village in the area already within old enclosures in 1726 as well as within the deerpark.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.64 site 9 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<2> 1819, Alderton Enclosure Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN21535.

<3> 1726, Northamptonshire Record Office map of Alderton 1726, (unchecked) (Map). SNN59325.

<4> Hall D., 2001, The Woodland Landscapes of Southern Northamptonshire, p.33-46 (unchecked) (Article). SNN102520.

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