2 A mill is known to have existed at Alveston since 966 and in the Domesday survey there were three mills. In 1240 there were two mills and a mill ...
Alveston Mill, the site of a watermill for which there is documentary evidence from the early Medieval period. Derelict by 1886, it was demolished in the 1940s. Only a weir survives. The mill was 400m north east of the church.
1 Three fields centred on the above location are called “Little Mill Field, “Mill Field Mead” and “Great Mill Field”.
2 This field is now under plough and apart from ...
The possible site of a watermill of unknown date. The site is suggested by field names and lies 100m west of Ansty Waste Bridge.
1 Earth bank acting as possible dam, Wroxall Abbey. Earth bank across low area of valley which opens into bowl shape on the abbey side of the dam. Possibly for ...
Earth bank across a small valley for damming the small stream, possibly for a mill, within Wroxall Abbey Park.
1A coppice wood of 20.8 ha. Almost certainly recorded in the 1279 Hundred Rolls, the wood can probably be identified with one of the two woods recorded in Domesday Book ...
Piles Coppice, a Medieval (and probably earlier) managed woodland. The woodland comprises: wood banks, a deer park bank and evidence of ancient coppicing.
1 A 4.1 ha remnant of a larger coppice wood, mostly cleared in the mid-20th century for housing. Despite ambiguities in the record, this is probaby one of the ...
Binley Common Wood, a Medieval (and probably earlier) managed woodland; former grazed common wood. The woodland comprises: woodbanks; a possible Medieval "trench"; an area of ridge and furrow and evidence of ancient coppicing.
1 A ‘salt maere’ (pool, possibly providing refreshment for pack animals) is referred to on the boundary of Alveston in a charter of AD 985. The fishpond in Goldicote Park ...
There is Early Medieval documentary evidence for the existence of a 'salt mere' at this site, associated with a trackway. The present fishpond in Goldicote Park, 300m south west of Long Coppice, may be its descendant.