Post Medieval Settlement at Lower Green, Wishaw Farm

1 The area around Wishaw Hall Farm continued to be occupied into the Post Medieval period and the area is shown on early maps as Lower Green (which may have been its Medieval name). There appears to have been a shift of the settlement to the NW. The area to the E of Grove Lane was largely abandoned except for the cottages at the N and S ends. The area N of Hall Farm is shown on Post Medieval maps, from Ogilby’s map of 1675 onwards, as a ‘green’ with buildings to its N and W from 1683. Fieldwalking in 1979 in this area found building debris in the area of one of these buildings and a quantity of only medieval pottery. Further medieval and post-medieval material came from NE of the green but is attributed to the hamlet of Moxhull (MWA7364).
23 Shows on early 19th century maps.