Monument record 0059000000 - STOWE VILLAGE

Summary

Historical records of medieval to seventeenth century settlement that was depopulated for the expansion and landscaping of Stowe Park.

Protected Status/Designation

  • 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 (1)

  • DESERTED SETTLEMENT (Medieval to 17th Century - 1066 AD? to 1637 AD?)

Description

Stowe village stretched S from the church along a road called Hegway (B5).
In 1720 had 32 houses & 180 people, but had nearly disappeared by 1927 due to encroachment of park (B1).
Settlement moved to Dadford? (B2).
Only trace of village (in 1989) are tile fragments (B5).
NGR to park centre (B1).
The National Trust's survey for Stowe undertaken in 1989 makes reference to the village which seems to have included ancillary buildings of the great house. The village included a vicarage, a mill and there may have been fishponds on the site of the 11 acre lake (B8).
In 1712, the village contained only 31 houses and 80 inhabitants; consisting of a few detached farms, and other habitations, which have been since so completely and entirely merged in the gardens and demesnes of Stowe, the modern and magnificent seat of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, that it can not be, with any degree of precision, attempted to be separately described (B11).

Sources (12)

  • <1>SBC20463 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1927. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume IV. Volume 4. p232.
  • <2>SBC1672 Bibliographic reference: BERESFORD MW 1953 NOTES.
  • <3>SBC1665 Bibliographic reference: BERESFORD MW & HURST JG 1971 DESERTED MEDIEVAL VIL LAGES P184.
  • <4>SBC10697 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SP 63 NE 4.
  • <5>SBC16361 Bibliographic reference: WAINWRIGHT A 1989 NATIONAL TRUST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SU RVEY (STOWE P 31) IN CAS FILE 4208.
  • <6>SBC16355 Bibliographic reference: WAINWRIGHT A (NATIONAL TRUST) & FARLEY M E JUNE 19 91.
  • <7>SBC16501 Bibliographic reference: WESCOMBE P J, WAINWRIGHT A (NATIONAL TRUST) & FARLEY M E, MAY 1992.
  • <8>SBC19992 Unpublished document: Angus Wainwright. 1989. The National Trust Archaeological Survey: Stowe. pp35.
  • <9>SBC20023 Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2001. Stowe Park, Stowe, Buckinghamshire: An Archaeological Survey by English Heritage (Survey Report).
  • <10>SBC22774 Bibliographic reference: Richard Jones and Mark Page. 2006. Medieval Villages in an English Landscape: Beginnings and Ends. pp215,218,219,221.
  • <11>SBC26953 Bibliographic reference: George Lipscomb. 1847. The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham (Volume 3). Volume 3. p108.
  • <12>SBC26960 Unpublished document: National Trust. 2019. Report Describing Excavation of Stone Footings on the Lawn East of the Doric Arch at Stowe Gardens.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 6777 3734 (280m by 240m)
Civil Parish STOWE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

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Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Intervention: (EBC13363)

Record last edited

Nov 20 2024 9:56AM

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