Monument record MBC45366 - Medieval and/or post medieval double-ditched trackway and field boundary, Thickbare Wood

A medieval and/or post medieval double-ditched trackway and field boundary is visible on historic aerial photographs as earthworks and was mapped as part of the North Buckinghamshire Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18304). Located in a field immediately S of Thickbare Wood and centred at SP 81242 33114, two parallel ditches about 1.3 metres wide and 5.5 metres apart, extends SSE from the SE corner of Thickbare Wood for 107 metres, terminating at a former medieval linear field boundary ditch 1.5 metres wide and bank extending 105 metres NW-SE. The double ditched trackway is an extension of a trackway bounded by hedges that extends 480 metres NNW-SSE from agricultural buildings on Shenley Road along the E boundary of the woodland. These features are not recorded on the 1881 dated 1st Edition OS map, but the full length of the trackway and the field boundary is clearly depicted on the 1813 dated Ordnance Surveyors Drawing, cutting through Thickbare Wood to a linear clearing when the wood was more extensive, and formed part of medieval Whaddon Chase. On aerial photographs taken in 2019 and recent remote sensing data, the feature appear to have been levelled and are not visible (1-5).