SNN106484 - An archaeological desk-based assessment of land off Windsor Road, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

The site is currently scrub and public open space. There are no nationally designated monuments within the site. There are no sites recorded in the HER that fall within the site boundary. However, there are a number of sites in the immediate vicinity that may extend into the development area. These include a significant Iron Age settlement that is likely to extend into the site. It is possible that a Roman settlement also extends into the area from the south. An undateed ditch and bank earthwork follows the line of the old parish boundary and may be of some antiquity. A smallpox hospital was built on the north-eastern boundary of the site at some point in the 19th century and had been demolished by the middle of the 20th century. Map evidence indicated that the site has been undeveloped, apart from 20th century allotments, since at least the 19th century.