Monument record 2024 - The Park, Sywell

Possible medieval deer park north of the vilage. Probable remains of the park pale.

{1} Deer park (?) (SP 821674) perhaps lay somewhere north of the village in the medieval period, although it is not apparently documented. In the angle betwen the Holcot and Wellingborough Roads is a large rectangular pond known as Park Pond, and on an Estate Map of c 1700 (not seen by RCHM) the land around it is called The Park. Along the side of Holcot Road is a large bank up to 2m high at its south end with the remains of a stone wall along it. The bank can be traced to the north for 400 m. but is only 1.5m high, after which it is no longer visible. To the east, along the north side of Wellingborough Road, a scarp 2.5m high extends for a distance of some 200 m This bank and scarp may be a park boundary, though traces of medieval occupation, perhaps part of Sywell village lie east of the Pond.

{2} An estate map of c.1700 shows this corner of the airfield as The Park.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1979, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.145 site 8 (checked) (Series). SNN77380.

<2> Brown A.E. (Editor), 1974, Archaeology In Northamptonshire 1973, 9/85 (checked) (Article). SNN9109.

<3> 1725, Map of Sywell, (unchecked) (Map). SNN23179.

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Feb 4 2025 8:25PM