Monument record MBC44718 - Medieval and/or post medieval ridge and furrow cultivation, plough headlands and boundary ditches in Whaddon parish.

Medieval and/or post medieval ridge and furrow cultivation, plough headlands and boundary ditches, 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). Focused mainly around the west and south of Whaddon village and centred at SP 80611 33921, to the east and south of the village was the former medieval private hunting forest of Whaddon Chase until disafforested in 1840, which prevented agricultural expansion into these areas until that time. The ridge and furrow is generally aligned NW-SE. Almost all the ridge and furrow cultivation blocks are visible as extant earthworks on aerial photographs taken in the 1940s, with aerial photographs taken in 2019 and recent remote sensing data indicating that many of the earthwork blocks remain extant (1-7).