Monument record MBC43701 - Medieval and/or post medieval ridge and furrow cultivation, plough headlands and boundary ditches in Swanbourne parish.

An almost contiguous swathe of medieval and/or post medieval ridge and furrow cultivation, remnants of the former common open-field system, is 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 across the eastern half of Swanbourne parish and centred at SP 80744 26983, almost all the ridge and furrow cultivation blocks are visible as extant earthworks on aerial photographs taken in the 1940s. Aerial photographs taken in 2019 and recent remote sensing data indicate that many of the earthwork remain extant, whilst some have been plough-levelled, likely due to post-war intensive agricultural regimes (1-7).