Monument record 5046/0/1 - Hollow Way (Formerly East Street)

{1} Earthworks of the shrunken medieval village of Great Houghton. A broad hollow way separated the closes on the east of the High Street and the adjacent ridge and furrow. These remains have been largely destroyed by modern playing fields.

{2} To the north-east of the village there is a field with earthworks of the shrunken settlement. Many of the fields also remain ridge and furrow.

{3} Housing development in the 1960s and 1970s obscured the precise extent and nature of any village earthworks except to the north east where there were in 1972 still a few uneven areas of probable house platforms and a fine sunken road (the East Street as mapped in the C17th). These are almost certainly medieval in origin.

{4} The eastern side of a prominent hollow-way, over 2m deep, runs from at least SP79255902 northwards to at least SP79245910.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.84/Site 7 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<2> 1973, South Midlands Archaeology: CBA Group 9 Newsletter, 3/32 (checked) (Journal). SNN26216.

<3> HALL D.N., 1979, Great Houghton Parish Survey, 14/81 (checked) (Article). SNN75862.

<4> Cadman G., 2000, Note for SMR: Great Houghton, (checked) (SMR Report Form). SNN100677.

<5> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1985, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.298 site 10 (checked) (Series). SNN77383.

Record last edited

May 31 2011 12:42PM