Monument record 0214901000 - WATERCOURSES AT DENHAM COURT

Summary

Remains of a possible medieval moat or post-medieval ornamental watercourses at Denham Court.

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  • None recorded

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Type and Period (4)

  • FISHPOND? (Post-Medieval to Modern - 1540 AD to 1945 AD)
  • (Former Type) MOAT? (Medieval to Post-Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1798 AD?)
  • ORNAMENTAL POND? (Post-Medieval to Modern - 1540 AD to 1945 AD)
  • ORNAMENTAL CANAL? (Post-Medieval - 1540 AD to 1798 AD)

Description

Moat & fishpond surrounds house. East arm formed by River Colne (B4.)
Not a moat, but ornamental watercourse. Fishpond survives (B6).
Free fishing in the Colne at Denham was attached to the manor in C17 & C18 (B3).
NGR to west arm of watercourse.
Assessment of documentary evidence for moats, fishponds and ornamental watercourses at Denham Court (B13).
Evaluation trial trenching and augering carried out by Oxford Archaeology in March 2011 in advance of proposed construction of a new office building located the bank of a former watercourse, shown as a formal pond on historic mapping, which had been infilled with modern demolition debris, possibly in the 1980s. To the east of the former pond a sequence of garden soils 0.85m thick overlay deposits of alluvium 1.06m-2.3m thick intersperesed with organic and peaty lenses with well-preserved plant material and land snails, suggestive of slow flowing, low energy water within former palaochannels. See report for detail (B14).
Detailed description of ornamental watercourses (B15).

Sources (6)

  • <3>SBC20462 Bibliographic reference: William Page (ed). 1925. A History of Buckinghamshire (Victoria County History) Volume III. Volume 3. pp256-259.
  • <4>SBC20466 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1912. Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire. Volume 1. p116.
  • <6>SBC11266 Unpublished document: Ordnance Survey Field Investigator. 1974. OS RECORD CARD TQ 08 NE: 31.
  • <13>SBC24555 Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology. 2010. Historical Assessment: Buckinghamshire Golf Club, Denham Court.
  • <14>SBC24554 Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeology. 2011. Buckinghamshire Golf Club, Denham: Archaeological Evaluation Report.
  • <15>SBC25656 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust. 2021. Denham Court: Understanding Historic Parks and Gardens in Buckinghamshire.

Location

Grid reference TQ 05052 86815 (point)
Civil Parish DENHAM, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (2)

  • Event - Survey: (EBC14180)
  • Event - Intervention: Evaluation trial trenching and augering (Ref: DEGOLF 11) (EBC17702)

Record last edited

Nov 4 2024 8:53PM

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