Monument record 0059100000 - BOYCOTT village

Summary

Historical records of village depopulated in the eighteenth century to make way for landscaped gardens. Recorded in Domesday Book.

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  • Planning Notification Area: Deserted Medieval village of Boycott
  • 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 (2)

  • DESERTED SETTLEMENT (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD to 1798 AD)
  • (Former Type) VILL (Undated)

Description

VILLAGE SAID TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BY 1735 (B5).
WAS REFERRED TO AS A DECAYED HAMLET C.1755 (B1).
ONCE A POPULOUS VILLAGE, NOW (1862) DEPOPULATED & INCLUDED IN THE GROUNDS OF STOWE HOUSE (B2).
HAD A CHAPEL (B1-2).
NGR TO BOYCOTT MANOR (B4).
MANOR HOUSE ITSELF IS A C19 BUILDING (B6).
(Land of Reinbald) Reinbald holds 1 hide in Boycott from the King. Land for 3 ploughs. Now in lordship 1 plough, with 1 villager. Woodland 4 furlongs long and 2 wide. The value was 40s; now 20s. Blackman held it freely (B7).
Historic building survey carried out by Paul Woodfield and local volunteers in 2004 as part of the Whittlewood Project (B8).

Sources (8)

  • <1>SBC16715 Bibliographic reference: WILLIS B 1755 HISTORY & ANTIQUITIES OF-- BUCKINGHA M P280.
  • <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. p232.
  • <4>SBC1626 Bibliographic reference: BERESFORD M & HURST JG 1971 DESERTED MEDIEVAL VILL AGES P183.
  • <5>SBC10628 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. OS RECORD CARD.
  • <6>SBC3000 Verbal communication: CLARKE, MR G. 1977 PERS COMM.
  • <7>SBC4271 Bibliographic reference: John Morris (ed). 1978. Domesday Book: Buckinghamshire. Entry E4.
  • <8>SBC23346 Unpublished document: P Woodfield. 2005. Whittlewood Project: Historic Buildings Surveys: Stowe with Dadford and Boycott.

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 6620 3717 (180m by 220m)
Civil Parish STOWE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Oct 24 2024 7:58PM

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