Monument record 6991/1 - Short Wood

Remaining woodland incorporates Short wood, Cockshoot Close, Hall Wood, Dodhouse Wood - names taken from Paxton's survey of 1635.

{1} Plan of Short Wood, Glapthorn and Southwick shows earthworks surviving in 1972. Series of banks and ditches. Remaining woodland incorporates Short wood, Cockshoot Close, Hall Wood, Dodhouse Wood - names taken from Paxton's survey of 1635. Two parts of Dodhouse Wood cleared between 1635 and 1817. Earthworks of ridge and furrow within Dodhouse Wood and a series of ditches, banks, boundaries within Short Wood, survived in 1972.

{3} Short Wood indicated on Petitt's map of "Rockingham Forest in the seventeenth century" as "private or purlieu woods".

<1> PETERKEN G.F., 1976, Long-Term Changes in the Woodlands of Rockingham Forest and Other Areas, p.135 (unchecked) (Article). SNN42849.

<2> PAXTON, 1635, Survey of The Manor of Glapthorn (NRO 1352/10), NRO 1352/10 (Map). SNN8120.

<3> Pettit P.A.J., 1968, The Royal Forests of Northamptonshire: A Study in Their Economy 1558-1714, (unchecked) (Series). SNN42130.

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Aug 23 2024 10:21AM