Monument record 396/0/2 - Medieval/Post Medieval Hollow Way

A possible medieval hollow way.

{1} Field name: Home Close

{2} Hollow way (SP536660),immediately SW of the manor house,at the W end of Braunston village,on a very steeply sloping hillside of clay between 100m aned 115m above OD.It is slightly curved and up to 2m deep and appears to be an earlier line of the main street leading from the village to Braunstonbury before the existing L-shaped road to the N was laid out.The latter had been constructed before 1785;at that date the area containing the hollow way was called Home Close
and was part of the grounds of the manor house.

{3} NCCAP:SP5366/002-3.

<1> 1785, Estate Map of Braunston, (unchecked) (Map). SNN9436.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.23 Site 4 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<3> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, (unchecked) (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<4> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, AP (RAF VAP CPE/UK/1994, 4352-3) (Photographs). SNN104890.

<5> Environment Agency, LIDAR Composite DTM - 1m, Accessed 17/05/2024 (Digital Plots). SNN111710.

Record last edited

May 17 2024 10:00AM