Monument record 981/0/1 - Post Medieval Pond of Uncertain Purpose

Remains of dam. Shown on 1587 parish map. Now part of a road.

{1} Nothing is shown here on the 1580 map.

{2} The dam is depicted with a triangular pond behind it to the west.

{3} Modern road runs along the dam.

{4} Dam (SP 699684), lies across the valley of a small E.-flowing stream in the N. of the parish, on Upper Lias Clay at 100 m. above OD. The present road from Holdenby to Spratton runs along the top of the dam
and has presumably much altered it. It is some 80 m. long with a maximum height of 2.5 m. and is marked as an embankment on the OS 1:2500 map (SP 6968). On the parish map of 1580 nothing is shown at
this point, but on the 1587 map the dam is depicted with a triangular pond behind it and is therefore presumably part of the work carried out in the parish at that time by Sir Christopher Hatton.

<1> 1580, The Survey of The Manor of Holdenby in The County of Northampton, made in 1580 (Finch-Hatton), (unchecked) (Map). SNN18155.

<2> 1587, The Survey of The Manor of Holdenby made in 1587 (Finch-Hatton), (unchecked) (Map). SNN18147.

<3> OS 25 INCH MAP, (unchecked) (Map). SNN18183.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.103+109+Pl.17 Site 6 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77381.

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Mar 7 2024 2:58PM