Monument record 0066603000 - BEACHENDON

IN LIST OF BUCKS DMV'S (B4).
TRACES OF EARTHWORKS N & E OF FARM; NO CERTAIN ENCLOSURES OR HOUSE PLATFORMS. TRACKWAY RUNS NW FROM FARM (B5).
NO POSITIVE DMV REMAINS AROUND FARM. TO N TERRACING VISIBLE BUT NO REGULAR PATTERN OF MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT. SOME CROFTS & POSSIBLE STREETS VISIBLE ON APS. NGR (B6).

A medieval/post medieval deserted settlement is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located in fields immediately north, east and south of Beachendon Farm and centred at SP 75953 13628, the earthwork remains comprise a hollow way, a linear ditch up to 12.5 metres wide that extends 140 metres NW from the farm. To the E of this is a linear boundary ditch between 2.5 and 11 metres that encloses the settlement, extending 180 metres SW-NE along the NW facing boundary, before turning 90 degree to the SE for 125 metres along the NE facing boundary and then turning SW for 115 metres along the SE facing boundary. Immediately N of the farm is a large D-shaped platform about 108 x 42 metres at its widest points. To the NE of the farm is a complex of earthwork banks, ditches and hollows that suggest ponds, hollow ways or trackways and boundaries. In the field immediately S of the farm is a number of linear and curving scarp slopes that forms at least 6 variously sized areas of terraced ground or platforms. On aerial photographs taken in 1971, the earthworks remain visible, but by 1978 farm upgrades have commenced and the hollow way, large platform and some boundary ditch has been levelled. The terraces to the S of the farm remain visible in 1978 but by 2003 they appear to have been levelled (10-15).




SP 759137 DMV at Beachendon. Excellent historical documentation, but the period of desertion is unknown (B16).
No definite pattern but some crofts and possibly streets visible on A/Ps (B20).
No positive remains of a DMV exist around the present Beachendon Farm (SP 758137), which is situated on a rise of ground to the N of the River Thame. To the N of the farm terracing is visible in pasture fields, but this does not form any regular pattern of Md settlement (B17).
House platforms visible on NMR air photograph (B18).
A rapid examination of air photography (B21) shows the earthworks of the possible DMV, visible in 1969 (B19).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.