Monument record MBC47963 - Medieval and/or post medieval field systems, Quainton parish.

Contiguous medieval and/or post medieval ridge and furrow blocks, 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 Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located across the northwest quarter of Quainton parish and centred at SP 73713 20329, the cultivation earthworks extend in a contiguous swathe across the southwestern corner of the parish, though are more broken and clustered in the north and east. On aerial photographs taken in 2023 and recent remote sensing data, over three quarters of the cultivation earthworks mapped from historic aerial photographs remain extant (1-16).

Contiguous extensive medieval and/or post medieval ridge and furrow, plough headlands, furlong boundaries and banks, 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 Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located in the southeast corner of Quainton parish, the ridge and furrow blocks are almost contiguous, though there are no blocks visible in fields SW of Lower Denham Farm. Contained within this system are plough headlands and boundary ditches, as well as linear and sinuous sections of earthwork bank, likely being furlong boundaries. These earthwork furlong banks are part of a much more extensive system of land division boundaries that extends eastwards into Bedfordshire and East Cambridgeshire. Whilst many of these features originate in the medieval period with the establishment of the common field cultivation system, some of the boundary banks may have earlier origins. They remain visible chiefly as broad and low earthworks on recent lidar remote sensing data, probably having been spread by post-war ploughing regimes. Whilst some of these linear banks respect the boundaries of the ridge and cultivation blocks, others pass through and apparently under the ridge and furrow, likely indicating former medieval cultivation boundaries that were subsequently readjusted. On aerial photographs taken in 2023 and recent remote sensing data (17-24).

Extensive medieval and/or post medieval ridge and furrow cultivation, remnants of the former common open-field system, are visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as earthworks and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located across the northwest quarter of Quainton parish and centred at SP 72673 21073, on aerial photographs taken in 2021 and recent remote sensing data, just over three-quarters of the ridge and furrow earthworks that were extant in the 1940s remain visible, the remainder having been plough levelled by post-war agricultural regimes (25-39).

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 Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located across the north eastern quarter of Quainton parish, the blocks of the ridge and furrow cultivation are contiguous across the parish. On aerial photographs taken in 2021 and recent remote sensing data, about eighty-five percent of the earthwork cultivation blocks remain visible, the remainder having been plough levelled by post-war agricultural regimes (40-47).