Fishponds at Church End, Chesterton

Description of this historic site

Fishponds used for the breeding and storage of fish. The fishponds are associated with the Medieval and/or Post Medieval manors and survive as earthworks. The site is located 100m north of St Giles's Church at Chesterton.

Notes about this historic site

1 Fishponds.
2 Plan.
3 Upstream of the manor (N and NE of the church) is a fine series of fishponds. Along the N side a leet runs beyond a prominent linear bank, and this may have been associated with an early watermill site.
4 Overgrown, but the earthworks can still be clearly discerned.
5 Stone cut to form columns was found in the fish pond in 1998.
6 The fishponds formed part of the 17th century park, together with other pools closer to the Post Medieval house itself (p86-87).
7 Scheduling Information. The monument includes the buried and earthwork remains of the Nedieval settlement (WA 788/WA 6306), a moated manorial site (WA 790 and WA 6302) and fishponds. St Giles Church, the churchwarden’s cottage and the northern half of the church cemetery are totally excluded from the scheduling. The fishponds include at least 2 linear ponds, records suggest that there were originally a chain of 4 ponds.
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