Monument record 1565800000 - South of Burrow Farm

Summary

Possible enclosure identified at Burrow Farm. Examination of aerial photographs for the RCHME Thames Valley NMP project in 1993 located no enclosure or earthworks at this location.

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Type and Period (2)

ENCLOSURE (Undated)
EARTHWORK (Undated)

Description

The present rector of Hambleden has noticed what appear to him to be the outlines of a camp at Burrow Farm. (1)

No further information on this site was obtained but it is possible that a scarp and slight hollow where a track ran beside a former field boundary before entering a steep re-entrant at SU 7963 8551 is intended. (B2)

Nothing visible on AP's. (B3)

This area lies within the region mapped from air photographs by the RCHME's Thames Valley NMP project. No earthworks were recorded at this location during that survey. (B4)

Insert 1999 (B5)

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Sources (5)

<1>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. p47.
<2>SBC27490 Verbal communication: C F Wardale (Ordnance Survey Field Investigator). 1960. Field Investigators Comments.
<3>SBC27491 Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1940s. Aerial photograph RAF.
<4>SBC27492 Verbal communication: Cathy Stoertz. 1993. RCHME/EH/HE Aerial Photographers comment. AF1094886 RCHME: Thames Valley NMP, SU 78 NE.
<5>XYSBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). [Mapped feature: #51177 ]

Location

Grid reference	Centred SU 79630 85510 (22m by 22m) Copied from NRHE GIS
Civil Parish	HAMBLEDEN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire