Monument record 0077100000 - LILLINGSTONE DAYRELL

'TOTA VILLA PROSTERNITUR & TOTALITER DEVASTA EXISIT'; & PLOUGHS PUT DOWN,40 PEOPLE DISPLACED,7 MESSU AGIA,4 COTAGIA DECAYED (4 FEB 1491)(BI1).1616: T D AYRELL PULLED DOWN HOUSES,TURNING SITE INTO FISHPO NDS(BI2).BUMPS & HOLLOWAYS,MEDIUM QUALITY(BI3-4) S OME ENCLOSURE BANKS,NO COHERENT PATTERN(BI5)

The site of a manor house, trackways, boundaries and former garden features of medieval date are visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as extant levelled earthworks and cropmarks and were mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located next to the Church and Manor Farm, Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield Abbey, and centred at SP 70399 39825. The site is visible as crossing trackways west of the site of the church, with a north east to south west road crossing a north west to south east road, which appear to continue on the north side of the existing road (see MBC1336). The site of the Manor House is visible as cropmarks of garden boundaries; further features are visible closer to the crossroads but are not clear enough to identify individually. Field walking was undertaken in 2000 south of the lane to church, where the field has been ploughed, and this revealed the changing concentration of settlement from early medieval through to late medieval when the settlement was removed. On the north of this lane ground is very uneven but land use is pasture and, apart from ridge and furrow earthwork, features are not clear here. (8-20)




(SP 70473983) Manor House (NR) (site of) (B21).
The ancient Manor House of the Dayrells was taken down in 1767 and a smaller house built on its site in 1792. (There is no indication of a building at this position on the original 1" (1820-30) and it seems likely that the later house was built slightly to the N and is now known as Manor Farm SP 70533989) (B22).
SP 706398. Lillingston Dayrell DMV Enclosed for pasture, period of desertion c 1450-1700; resettled pre-Industrial Revolution c 1800 (B23).
A separate village in 1086 (B24).
Consisted of one messuage and five cottages in 1559 (B25).
Fish ponds east of the Rectory, now dry (SP 701400) (B26).
Roads, house platforms and fish ponds; also a rectangular platform slightly ditched on the S and W sides in the same position as the site of the manor house given by authy 1 (B27).
Within the green banded 6" area no coherent settlement pattern remains in fields of light pasture which show evidence of levelling and quarrying. Sporadic enclosure banks remain and one measuring c 60.0m x 100.0m, visible on RAF AP's encloses the published 6" Manor House site at SP 70473980. There is no trace of the house. Centred at SP 70104000, to the SE of the Rectory is the remains of a fishpond complex, possibly associated with the manor. The ponds are dry, and the pattern is mutilated and somewhat overlaid by later retaining banks of more substantial structure. Fishponds surveyed at 1:2500 (B28).
A rapid examination of air photography (9a) shows the earthworks of the 'deserted village' and the fish ponds (B29).
NRHE insert 2000, update 2004 (B30).