Monument record 731/3/1 - Possible medieval/post-medieval fishpond

Earthworks of fishpond

{1} Fishpond (SP 630417) lies on the valley of a small ENE-flowing stream, on clay and alluvium at 142 m. above OD. A large irregular pond is cut down into the valley sides with a large dam now much damaged at its NE end. The N and S sides have large banks 1m - 2m high separating the pond from two high-level leats. The leat on the N appears to have been an overflow channel to carry water round the pond, and the leat to the S leads to the site of a watermill which lay immediately SE of the dam. Nothing is known of the history or date of this pond.

{2} The main stream and the former by-pass channel are to the west of the track but nothing of the mill is apparent.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.142 site 3 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<2> STARMER G., 2002?, Northamptonshire Watermills Survey 2001 - 2002 (H-Z), p.113 (checked) (Report). SNN105521.

<3> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, A/P (RAF VAP CPE/UK/1926, 5225-7) (Photographs). SNN104890.

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Feb 5 2025 6:12PM