Fishponds 200m SE of Manor House Farm, Priors Marston.
Description of this historic site
Fishponds, used for the breeding and storage of fish, which date to the Medieval/Post Medieval period. They remain partly visible as earthworks and are situated 200m southeast of the Manor House at Priors Marston.
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Notes about this historic site
1 A fishpond complex of two rectangular fish tanks with a long lake, now shrunken to the Ox Pool. It is said locally that the Prior of Coventry had his fish from Marston.
2 Plan of 1977.
3 Plan of 1778.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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