Monument record 279 - Radstone

(Formerly Upper Radstone) shrunken village

{1} Settlement Remains (SP 589405). There were formerly two villages in the parish, Upper or Over and Lower or Nether Radstone. Lower Radstone is now deserted. Both were always combined in the national taxation records
The remains in Upper Radstone consist of a group of ditched and embanked enclosures on the south-west side of the main through street, separated from the adjacent ridge-and-furrow by a continuous bank and outer ditch. Along the edge of the street are disturbed areas suggesting former house-sites but a later quarry has cut through part of them. Further north-west, at the west end of the village (SP 586406), are other earthworks now almost destroyed by ploughing. These are mostly the remains of small closes still marked on modern OS maps, the sites of houses which remained until well into the present century. However, some of the closes apparently relate to a previous period of abandonment. {2}

{4} Aerial photos: NCCAP: SP5840/1-4

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.124 site 1 (Series). SNN77382.

<2> RAF VAP, RAF VAP CPE/UK/1926, 5218-9 (Photographs). SNN48198.

<3> 1955, OS 6 INCH MAP, SP54SE (checked) (Map). SNN15357.

<4> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

<5> Hall, D, 1973, Radston Parish Map (Map). SNN115239.

Record last edited

Jan 31 2025 2:31PM