Monument record 1668 - Grafton Regis

The site is largely shrunken and the settlement in the Tudor period and later largely shifted to the main road. The market place is likely to have been in the eastern part of the settlement near manor and church. There were significant earthworks surviving until the 1970s but now most are levelled.

{2} The site is largely shrunken and the settlement in the Tudor period and later largely shifted to the main road. The market place is likely to have been in the eastern part of the settlement near manor and church. There were significant earthworks surviving until the 1970s but now most are levelled. If significant remains have survived cultivation it may be possible for investigation of the issue of commercial activity to be examined on the back of the key issues in this settlement which are the investigation of the great house and park of Henry VIII, the Civil War siege and possibly the late Saxon origins of the settlement outlined by Brown. Such an investigation may be valuable as Grafton is one of the very few late medieval market foundations in the county and it is a settlement and the one which is currently the least developed. However the archaeological evidence of relevance, especially in the absence of good documentary evidence, may be too ephemeral to be worth investigation.

{3} The Midlands Archaeological Research Society is continuing a metal detector survey of the fields around the village of Grafton Regis. The aim is to detect and plot metal objects which may be associated with the Civil War siege of 1643.

{9} Possibly not taken forward to Stage 2 survey and assessment.

{10} Family tree of Wydeville.

{12} Settlement remains and manor house site (SP 756467) at Grafton Regis. The extant street pattern, and earthwork remains suggesting house and paddock sites, along with a larger rectangular enclosure with internal embanked area suggest an extension to the original village plan that has now been abandoned.

<1> FOARD G., 1977, Grafton Regis Earthwork Survey, (unchecked) (Drawing). SNN57966.

<2> Taylor J.; Foard G.; Ballinger J., 2002, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Overview, Appendix 2 (unchecked) (Report). SNN103118.

<3> Kings RFJ, 1993-4, Civil War Finds at Grafton Regis, (unchecked) (Note). SNN104123.

<4> Grafton Regis Millennium Project, 2004, Grafton Regis, History and Heritage, (unchecked) (Compact Disk). SNN104952.

<5> BROWN A.E., Grafton Regis: A Village Plan Explained?, (unchecked) (Draft). SNN105213.

<6> c.1700?, Grafton Regis Map (Undated), (unchecked) (Map). SNN108119.

<7> 1725, Grafton Regis Enclosure Map (NRO Map 463), (unchecked) (Map). SNN19182.

<8> Baker G., 1830, The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, p.175 (unchecked) (Book). SNN77328.

<9> BROWN A.E., Field Survey at Grafton Regis: A Village Plan Explained?, (unchecked) (Article). SNN75631.

<10> Dryden H.E.L., 1842-1895, Dryden Collection, DR/25/123/1 (Archive). SNN115.

<11> Dr Glenn Foard, The Civil War Siege at Grafton Regis (Website). SNN115841.

<12> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 62/Site 2 (Series). SNN77382.

<13> Royal Air Force, Vertical Aerial Photography, Air Photograph (RAF CPE/UK/1926, 3244-5) (Photographs). SNN104890.

<14> Aerial Photograph, Air Photograph (CUCAP AWN 55) (Photographs). SNN112974.

Record last edited

Feb 3 2025 8:57PM