Monument record 4665/0/1 - Possible Post Medieval/Modern Fishpond

Triangular pond and dam, lie immediately north west of Gayton Wood House, probably date to the Medieval or later period.

{1} Pond (SP 711534) lies in the SE of the parish, immediately NW of Gayton Wood House. A small triangular fishpond in the bottom of a small east draining valley on Upper Lias Clay at 115 m. above OD. It has a large dam 60m long x 14m wide x up to 2m high which carries the track to Gayton Wood House.

{2} Described as "fishpond" in 1841.

{3} The description given by authority {1} is consistent with this in fact being the pond marked at SP 711535 on OS 10:000 sheets, 100 m north of the grid reference given by authority {1};

RAF aerial photograph: RAF VAP CPE/UK/1926, 3032-3

LEE, E S., 1992, Fishpond at Gayton Wood House (Note). SNN110347.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.59/Site 6 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<2> 1841, Gayton Tithe Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN17905.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1958, 1950s/60s Ordnance Survey 6 Inch Mapping Series (SP75SW), (unchecked) (Map). SNN17202.

<4> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, NCCAP:SP7153/001-2 (unchecked) (Photographs). SNN104822.

Record last edited

Jul 4 2016 2:08PM