Monument record 4272/0/1 - Three Medieval/Post Medieval Fishponds

Fishponds (date uncertain)

{2} Fieldname: Townsend Close.

{3} Earthworks of former fishponds. Three ponds north of the river and parallel to it. The westernmost is roughly rectangular, cut back into the ridsing ground to the north-east, and with an outer retaining bank 1.5m high between it and the river. To the south-east is a smaller but similar pond, of which the outer bank is up to 1.75m high. Fuirther south-east again is a long, narrow pond, now dry and only 0.5m deep. It has a rounded west end and a low bank along the south side and the west. Two of the ponds have outlet channels but no inlet channels are visible and all three were presumably filled by seepage.

{5} NCCAP:SP7580/004 and NCCAP:SP7581/012.

<1> 1815, Arthingworth Tithe Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN19486.

<2> 1851, Tithe Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN19491.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.3-5 Site 5 (checked) (Series). SNN77381.

<4> Taylor P., 1992, Fishponds Report 1992, (checked) (Report). SNN1339.

<5> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, (unchecked) (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<6> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, RAF VAP CPE/UK/2109,3286 (Photographs). SNN104890.

<7> RCHME, Undated, RCHME Inventory: Northamptonshire II (Central), 890759 (Archive). SNN112900.

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May 21 2024 10:13AM