Monument record 2913/0/1 - Medieval settlement remains, Bulwick

Settlement remains formerly part of Bulwick village which lie immediately south of the existing village along the side of the main A43 road to Kettering. Features include a large and deeply cut hollow way running north east across Bulwick Park until it meets the present road just north of the turn to Southwick bounded by well marked ridge and furrow. Further north the main road has on both sides rectangular closes or paddocks enclosed by low banks and scarps which contain a number of building platforms. To the south of the existing houses on the south side of the main street of the village are other square closes with another hollow way outside them.

{1} SP 964 939: Settlement remains formerly part of Bulwick
village lie immediately south of the existing village along the side of the main A43 road to Kettering on limestone between 200 feet and 300 feet above OD. The most obvious feature is a large and deeply cut hollow way ('a' on Fig. 25) probably the predecessor of the present main road, running north east across Bulwick Park (from SP 9600 9345) until it meets the present road just north of the turn to Southwick (SP 9640 9385). The hollow way is bounded by well marked ridge and furrow. Further north the main road has on both sides
rectangular closes or paddocks enclosed by low banks and scarps which contain a number of building platforms. To the south of the existing houses on the south side of the main street of the village are other square closes (SP 9635 9411), with another hollow way outside them ('b' on Fig. 35). All these remains were already deserted by the early 18th century.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.24 site 3 (checked) (Series). SNN77379.

<2> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, A/P (RAF CPE/UK 1925 1134-5) (Photographs). SNN104890.

<3> 1728, Map of Bulwick (NRO Map 763a), (unchecked) (Map). SNN102457.

<4> Hall D.N., 1960-1999, Rockingham Forest Project: Archaeological Sites Recorded by David Hall, (unchecked) (Database). SNN102279.

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