Monument record 4202/1/1 - Possible medieval/post-medieval trackway and post medieval windmill

Possible mound visible as an earthwork. May be marked on historic map as a windmill. The mound appears to overlie an earlier trackway which runs between the ridge and furrow.

{1} Windmill Mound (SP 71118551), immediately N.W. of the village, on the summit of an isolated clay hill capped by glacial deposits, at 145 m. above OD. A well-marked circular mound 10 m. in diam. and 0.5 m. high partly overlies a broad raised trackway between ridge-and-furrow. There is also a large quarry pit. A windmill existed here as late as 1856 and is shown on a map of that date the hill was then called Mill Hill.

{2} NCCAP:SP7185/004-5.

{3} Windmill marked?

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.84/Site 5 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<2> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, (UNCHECKED) (Photographs). SNN104822.

<3> 1856, Northants Record Office map including East Farndon, (unchecked) (Map). SNN16372.

<4> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, A/P (RAF VAP 106G/UK/636 4129-30) (Photographs). SNN104890.

Record last edited

Sep 26 2023 8:41AM