Bank, possibly for flood prevention, or a ploughing headland beside the River Avon, Bubbenhall
Description of this historic site
A curving bank on the western side of the river Avon at Bubbenhall may be an embakment to prevent flooding or the headland associated with ridge and furrow ploughing seen nearby
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Notes about this historic site
1 A curving bank on the western side of the river Avon at Bubbenhall mapped as part of the English Heritage National Mapping Project.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
This field, Meadow Pingle, is the southernmost part of Broad Meadow, one of the former water meadows along the River Avon at Bubbenhall, the others being Mill Meadow and Cliff Meadow. There is a drainage channel between Pingle and First Broad Meadow immediately north of it. At the time of the 1726 Parliamentary Enclosure Award the water meadows remained allotted to the various freeholders and tenants of the joint manor of Baginton and Bubbenhall on the old collective basis with baulks in between each holding. When I was growing up in the village in the 1940s and 1950s these meadows were neglected marshes, where I used regularly to go bird watching so I know the area well. I believe the management of the water meadows, never very sophisticated in any case, would have dwindled during the First World War and in the 1920s and 1930s, since there was less and less need for hay with the decrease in the number of working farm horses.
I have been working on the history of the village for many years, and am hoping to publish a book in the near future – I am searching actively for publishers at the moment.
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