Monument record 0224300000 - PARK OF N WINCHENDON HOUSE

Summary

Medieval house platforms, hollow-ways and pottery found in field survey - Lower Winchendon, shrunken medieval village. The extensive earthwork remains of village earthworks in the form of platforms, hollow ways and fields of ridge and furrow (extending across a number of fields to the south of the village beyond the river) can be seen on aerial photographs taken in November 2006 by English Heritage as part of the Reconnaissance Recording programme.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Archaeological Notification Area: Earthworks of shrunken Medieval village at Lower Winchendon (DBC9064)
  • SHINE: Brook End medieval moated site (DBC7500)
  • SHINE: Lower Winchendon medieval shrunken village earthworks, holloways and associated ridge and furrow (DBC7498)

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  • SHRUNKEN VILLAGE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Description

VILLAGE EARTHWORKS: HOUSE PLATFORMS, PROBABLE HOLLOW WAYS ETC IDENTIFIED & PLOTTED (SEE 1:2500 SKETCH PLAN) BY MRS J STRONG. A FEW MEDIEVAL (?) SHERDS C OLLECTED (B1-2).
A WELL PRESERVED GROUP OF EARTHWORKS INCLUDING AT LEAST 1 HOUSE PLATFORM (B3).

An area of shrunken settlement of medieval date is visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as extant earthworks and was mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located at Winchendon Priory, Nether Winchendon, and centred at SP 73233 12015. Earthworks of boundaries, building platforms and possible trackways can be seen on aerial photographs and lidar visualisations. These are preserved in parkland around the site of Winchendon Priory. (5-11)
[See also CAS 02442]



SP 73451222 : Village earthworks house platforms and probable hollow-way identified and plotted by Mrs J Strong in 1975 (B12).
These earthworks survive as vague undulations in much ploughed pasture within the village of Lower Winchendon. They average some 0.4m in height but seem to form no coherent pattern. M Farley (a) confirms the area as one of shrinkage but considers the identification of individual plots and platforms uncertain (B13).
The extensive earthwork remains of village earthworks described by the previous authorities were seen centred at SP 7326 1188 in the form of platforms and hollow ways. Further earthworks of a large rectilinear platform could be seen to the west of the main village centre at SP 7307 1193. Extant ridge and furrow extends south of this platform to the river. A number of fields of ridge and furrow extend south of the village beyond the river (into the adjacent parish of Cuddington). These features were recorded from aerial photographs taken in November 2006 by English Heritage as part of the Reconnaissance Recording programme (B14).
NRHE inseet 2009, update 2004 (B15).

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 (15)

  • <1>SBC14939 Graphic material: STRONG MRS J TO FARLEY M E, FEB 1975 (& SEE PLAN F ILED CAS 2242).
  • <2>SBC10627 Bibliographic reference: OS RECORD CARD (FILED WITH CAS 2242).
  • <3>SBC4981 Bibliographic reference: FARLEY M E DECEMBER 1993 FIELD VISIT.
  • <4>SBC17443 Aerial Photograph: 02/02/94. BCM A20/8/20-24. SP\733121. Yes.
  • <5>SBC28216 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 1943. US/7PH/GP/LOC96 VM 8001 04-Dec-1943.
  • <6>SBC28214 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1897 RS 4076 12-Dec-1946.
  • <7>SBC28235 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 1994. NMR 15085_018 23-Jun-1994.
  • <8>SBC28236 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2006. NMR 24474_007 21-Nov-2006.
  • <9>SBC28237 Aerial Photograph: Historic England. 2006. NMR 24480_049 21-Nov-2006.
  • <10>SBC25062 Digital archive: Environment Agency. Environment Agency LiDAR data. LIDAR SP7312 Environment Agency 1m DTM Composite 2020 date accessed 09-Mar-2023.
  • <11>SBC25062 Digital archive: Environment Agency. Environment Agency LiDAR data. LIDAR SP7311 Environment Agency 1m DTM Composite 2020 date accessed 09-Mar-2023.
  • <12>SBC28903 Index: Buckinghamshire County Museum. Buckinghamshire County Museum Card Index No 2243.
  • <13>SBC28885 Verbal communication: P A Stevens. 1978. Field Investigators Comments - F1 PAS 16-FEB-78.
  • <14>SBC28904 Aerial Photograph: NMR. 2006. NMR SP 7312/28 NMR 24480/46 21-NOV-2006.
  • <15>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE).

Location

Grid reference Centred SP 7327 1209 (250m by 190m)
Civil Parish LOWER WINCHENDON, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (3)

  • Event - Survey: (EBC13938)
  • Event - Survey: (EBC14202)
  • Event - Survey: Aerial investigation and mapping project (Ref: 9179) (EBC18604)

Record last edited

Jan 21 2026 3:59PM

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