Monument record 4729/0/1 - Deer Park Boundary

{1} South of Preston Wood there is a roughly circular area of just under 50 hectares, bounded by a continuous modern hedge, and this is the most likely position [of the deer park boundary] but no traces of a park pale or bank exist on this hedge-line. The hedges are almost entirely of thorn and may have been planted at a recent date, a process which could have involved the removal of the former pale. The present hedge-line was certainly in existence in 1839. The field names on the 1839 map give no indication that the area outlined was ever a park. Beyond it to the W around Park Farm, there are several significant names, but the fields here do not have any traces of large banks bounding them

{2} RAF aerial photograph: RAF CPE/UK/1926, 3019-20

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.63/Site 16 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<2> Royal Air Force, 1940s, RAF Vertical Aerial Photographs, RAF VAP CPE/UK/1926 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN105266.

<3> Bridges J., 1791, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, p. 380-1 (unchecked) (Book). SNN77325.

<4> 1839, Hackleton Tithe Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN26269.

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Nov 25 2024 2:15PM