Landscape record 0097305000 - GREAT BRICKHILL MANOR

Relict parkland; no obvious evidence of formal gardens. Castellated 'folly' wall listed grade II (B6).
The remains of a park, garden and pleasure grounds laid out in the early and mid‐C19 around a now lost C18 and C19 country house, probably on the site of an earlier manor house. The framework of 
the site survives largely intact, particularly the boundary, entrances, park features including The 
Shrubberies, an extensive belt, and elements of the garden layout, but the principal buildings and 
some of the drives and paths have gone. Even so, the site of the former house remains as the focus 
of the landscape. A detached approach from Watling Street to the north‐east through Duncombe 
Wood survives, terminated at either end by two sets of lodges. See report for detail (B7).

Post-medieval landscape park features are visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located within the landscape park grounds of Brickhill Manor and centred at SP 89792 31018, the parkland is mostly located upon a flat tear-drop shaped plateau with a sinuous scarp to the north and to the south and a linear scarp to the west, which appears to have been artificially enhanced or created for the parkland. There would appear to be a narrow earthwork 30 metres long causeway to the plateau on the east side, at an angle crossing a broad and shallow 28 metres wide linear gully or valley that extends SE-NW, and broadening out at the NW end, where it is flanked by blocks of medieval ridge and furrow cultivation. Whether this is a natural feature, altered or entirely man-made is unclear (8-10).