Monument record 0163100000 - YEW PLACE, FARNHAM PARK

Summary

Mound at Yew Place in Farnham Park is probably a nineteenth century gazebo mound

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Archaeological Notification Area: Earthwork mound, possibly a 19th century garden gazebo mound (DBC9315)

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Type and Period (4)

(Former Type) ROUND BARROW? (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 2500 BC? to 701 BC?)
MOUND (Unknown date)
PROSPECT MOUND? (Post-Medieval to 19th Century - 1540 AD to 1899 AD)
GAZEBO? (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Dimensions - Height 0280 Width 1600 Length 1800 cm
Plan Form - CIRCULAR
MOUND, COULD BE BRONZE AGE BARROW (B1).
INCORRECT NGR & PARISH IN B1, AUTHOR CONFIRMS CORRECTION (B2-3).
OS MAP MARKS 'TUMULUS' AT NGR (B4).
STRONG LOCAL TRADITION OF GAZEBO MOUNT, MID C19; APPEARANCE CONCURS (B5).

(SU 9660 8332) Mound shown but not described (B4).

A doubtful barrow. Situated on a gentle S-facing slope in a field under cultivation, the scrub covered mound measures c18.0m E-W by 16.0m transversely and is 2.8m high. It has a flat top, and appears undisturbed.
There is a strong local tradition that the mound was built in the mid 19th c by the local rector for a gazebo, for the view it afforded down to the Thames and Windsor Castle. The appearance and dimensions concur with this theory.
Resurveyed at 1:2500 (B6).

NRHE records a mound - period not proven - at Stoke Poges SU 966835.
Nothing visible on available Aps (RAF 1954). (1)
No trace or local information. The above almost certainly refers to the mound at SU 96608332 [01631](See SU 98 SE 4). Mr R Dennington (B1) (Auth 1) concurs that the above NGR is probably a mistake, and has no knowledge of a former mound in area SU 966835. (B6).

Sources (7)

<1>SBC3496 Bibliographic reference: DENNINGTON R F & MORGAN S N.D. THE MIDDLE THAMES I N ANTIQUITY P42.
<2>SBC4911 Bibliographic reference: FARLEY M E 1976.
<3>SBC2462 Bibliographic reference: CAS CARD 1631.
<4>SBC10461 Map: OS 1975 1:10000 MAP.
<5>SBC11171 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD SU 98 SE 04. object number: 1319818.
<6>SBC28282 Verbal communication: J R Linge. 1974. Field Investigators Comments - F1 JRL 25-JUN-74.
<7>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). F53/71/2; OS53/F71/2 photo.

Location

Grid reference	SU 96600 83320 (point)
Civil Parish	FARNHAM ROYAL, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Event - Survey: (EBC14113)

Record last edited

Oct 30 2025 2:19PM