Ditches near Cock Bevington, Salford Priors Parish

1 A network of ditches, 500m to the north west of Cock Bevington Farm, seen on aerial photographs were mapped as part of the English Heritage National Mapping Project. The long linear cropmark orientated in an approximately eastwest direction appears to be the remains of a field boundary shown on the early OS mapping. The wide, slightly curving cropmark that joins the long linear ditch already described also matches an old field boundary. The remaining cropmarks appear to result from a drainage scheme possibly dating from the land improvement movement of the 17th and 18th centuries.