Monument record 0043700000 - DADFORD, STOWE

Summary

Medieval to post-medieval village earthworks recorded on aerial photograph and historical records of depopulation of village in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Planning Notification Area: Medieval shrunken village earthworks at Dadford
  • SHINE: Stowe medieval to post medieval landscape garden, medieval deserted villages of Lamport & Boycott, shrunken village of Daford, also moats, manors and fishponds, ridge and furrow earthworks & cropmarks, and areas of ancient semi natural woodland

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Type and Period (8)

  • DESERTED SETTLEMENT (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1798 AD?)
  • BANK (EARTHWORK) (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD?)
  • SCARP (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD?)
  • BOUNDARY DITCH (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD?)
  • DITCH (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD?)
  • HOLLOW WAY (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD?)
  • RIDGE AND FURROW (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD?)
  • RECTILINEAR ENCLOSURE (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD?)

Description

VILLAGE/HAMLET VISIBLE ON AP (B6).
A NUMBER OF CLEARLY DEFINED PLATFORMS. A FINE HOLLOW WAY RUNS UPHILL TO W (NGR TO CENTRE OF THESE EARTHWORKS). NOT THOROUGHLY SURVEYED. VILLAGE BECAME DEPOPULATED WHEN STOWE HOUSE BUILT (B5).
NB: CONSISTED OF FARMHOUSE & A FEW COTTAGES C.1862 (B2).
SKETCH ON CAS CARD.

Sources (13)

  • <1>SBC7728 Bibliographic reference: LIPSCOMB 3 PP113-4.
  • <2>SBC19727 Bibliographic reference: James Joseph Sheahan. 1862. History and Topography of Buckinghamshire. p309.
  • <3>SBC20463 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1927. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume IV. Volume 4. pp233-234.
  • <4>SBC3163 Bibliographic reference: CONGRESS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES, REPORT OF 33RD CONGRESS (1925) 1926 P18.
  • <5>SBC2118 Map: BULL E J 1973 PERS COMM & MAP.
  • <6>SBC12473 Aerial Photograph: RAF Vertical Aerial Photograph, 1946: run ?, frame 4185.
  • <7>SBC8382 Bibliographic reference: MEF (BCM) AP'S A25/14/0A-5A & A25/13/36-37 (APRIL 1996).
  • <8>SBC18810 Aerial Photograph: 11/10/46. RAF 20.4185. SP\675378. Yes.
  • <9>SBC26102 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2023. RAF-CPE-UK-1792 RS 4186 11-OCT-1946.
  • <10>SBC26093 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2023. RAF-CPE-UK-1926 RS 4230 16-JAN-1947.
  • <11>SBC26094 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2023. HSL-UK-69869 V 1067 19-APR-1969.
  • <12>SBC25062 Digital archive: Environment Agency. Environment Agency LiDAR data. LIDAR SP63NE Environment Agency National LIDAR Programme DTM 1 Metre dated 2019 SP6637.
  • <13>SBC26103 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2023. NMR 18981-08 14-NOV-2000.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 6666 3825 (290m by 340m)
Civil Parish STOWE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (3)

  • Event - Survey: (EBC13272)
  • Event - Survey: (EBC13770)
  • Event - Survey: Aerial investigation and mapping project (Ref: 7768) (EBC18304)

Record last edited

Oct 18 2024 9:51AM

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