Ditches beside the River Avon at Bretford
Description of this historic site
Interconnecting linear Ditches can be seen on aerial photographs 100 mto the east of the bridge at Bretford.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Interconnecting linear Ditches seen on aerial photographs 100m to the east of the bridge at Bretford were mapped as part of the English Heritage National Mapping Project.
2 These would appear to represent drainage ditches, or water meadows given that the run from/to the River.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
When I visited Bretford, I thought that the features I viewed looking east from the roadside before Bretford bridge were ridge and furrows. The banks seem too wide for a watermeadow irrigation feature. I would assume that a drainage feature would not be banked up, just a ditch with the spoil spread out.
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