Monument record 0213400000 - BURY COURT

BURY COURT, DECAYED MANSION DIVIDED INTO TENEMENTS & A FARMHOUSE. OWNED BY COLES FAMILY IN MID C19 (B1-3).
POSITION OF BURY/BERRY COURT IDENTIFIED FROM BRO MAP (B6).
LARGE HOUSE PLATFORM ON SITE, WITH BANK & POSSIBLE FISHPOND (B4), SHOWS ON AP (B5).


SP 662176. Site of shrunken medieval village at Ludgershall (B9 and B10).

A: SP 66181756: Some rig and furrow on village green. At N. end a track crosses closes (?) with two possible house sites off track.
B: SP 66411745: AP (a) shows track N-S through the site. Possible platforms to E. running into rig and furrow and a few other ?houses sites/enclosures to W. and N.
C:SP 66051721: Large house platform, bank to south, also track to long pond, ? fishpond.
D: SP 65811769: Area bisected by stream with a number of lightly defined rectangular enclosures, bounded by rig and furrow on NW and SW, and on N. where it runs onto Green with no clear limits. Further evidence of shrinkage is visible at E, SP 65871780 and F, SP 66241783.
The original nucleus of Ludgershall was presumably around SP 660172 the area of the church, moat and fishponds. Subsequent development seems to have extended northward in a haphazard manner with dwellings scattered around and encroaching upon a large green or common. Disuse and development currently continues in a similar fashion resulting in decay and shift rather than shrinkage. All the areas quoted in the Bucks Card Index show some evidence of occupation, one or more hollow ways, a garden plot, occasionally a building site, but all are relatively minor and often virtually unsurveyable.
A: A fieldway, still in use through rig and furrow; a track in the N.
B: Deep hollow ways; very poorly defined enclosures.
C: A 40.0m band between churchyard and rig and furrow incorporates two or three 'garden' plots.
D: Very poor enclosure in W. part of area but largely rig and furrow.
E and F: Possibly there were enclosures here but nothing very significant can be seen in the current pasture (B11).

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