Site of Fishponds S of Studley Priory
The site of several Medieval/Post Medieval fishponds used for the breeding and storage of fish. The site is now built over but is located just north of Studley Bridge.
1 The most detailed evidence for the layout of fishponds comes from an 18th century estate map. This shows a series of rectangular fishponds lying S of Priory Farm. One long pond to the W of the farm may have formed part of a moat around the Priory (PRN 6164). The inlets to the ponds are not shown. After 1824 a new mill pool for the mill (PRN 568) was constructed which destroyed some of the ponds. Little remains of the fishponds. In the 18th century there were seven separate ponds of rectangular shape and one irregular waterfilled depression linking the river with an outlet channel. The links between the ponds on the 18th century map are not clear.
2 Plan of the site.
3 These ponds are now built over.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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