Monument record 6082/0/4 - Ox Pitts (Former Medieval/Post Medieval Fishponds)

Fishponds at Ox Pitts (date uncertain)

{2} Fishponds (SP 563691) occupy the bottom of a small E-draining valley cut into Boulder Clay, north-west of the village at about 145m above OD.They consist of two adjoining rectangular embanked ponds up to 2m deep and now dry but shown on the 1st ed OS 1 inch map of 1834 as full of water. On the Tithe Map of 1850 (NRO) the easternmost pond is shown still full of water but as the map does not extend further west the other pond is not marked.

<1> Taylor P., 1992, Fishponds Report 1992, (checked) (Report). SNN1339.

<2> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.7 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<3> 1850, TITHE MAP, (unchecked) (Map). SNN9005.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1834, First Edition Ordnance Survey 1 Inch Map Series (Sheet 52), (unchecked) (Map). SNN281.

<5> RCHME, Undated, RCHME Inventory: Northamptonshire II (Central), 890782 (Archive). SNN112900.

Record last edited

Oct 31 2023 9:35AM