1 There were two mills attached to the manor in 1086; in 1291 a third mill at Home Grange, S of the Abbey, and others at Stareton and Cryfield are ...
The site of Grange Mill, a watermill which was originally built during the Medieval period. The mill is known to have existed from documentary evidence. It was situated 1km south east of Stoneleigh Abbey.
1 There were two mills at Stoneleigh in 1086. By 1535 six mills were recorded. In 1725 only two mills were recorded on Beighton’s map and the same two appear ...
The possible site of a watermill, dating from the Medieval period onwards, is suggested by documentary evidence. The site lies 200m south west of Stoneleigh Abbey.
1 Before the Norman invasion there were two mills at Stoneleigh.
2 Two mills are recorded in 1086 and 1291 and references occur to mills in 1367, 1535, and 1546.
3 There ...
The possible site of a Medieval watermill is suggested by documentary evidence. No trace of the mill buildings is visible above the ground level but the remains of the sluices can be traced. The site is located 300m north west of Stoneleigh Abbey.
1 This was probably on the site of at least one of the two mills in Stoneleigh recorded in the Domesday Survey. By the 16th century there were six mills ...
The site of Stoneleigh Mill, a watermill which dates back to the Medieval period. The watercourses associated with the mill are still visible as earthworks. The site lies to the north of Stoneleigh.
1 There were two mills at Stoneleigh in 1086. By 1291 there were other mills at Stareton and Cryfield.
2 It is likely that the mill at Stareton was situated at ...
The possible site of a watermill dating to the Medieval period. The mill is known to have existed from documentary evidence. The watercourses associated with the mill are still visible as earthworks and are situated to the west of Stareton.
1 Gatehouse, completed in 1346 by Adam de Hockele, sixteenth Abbot. Although much restored and internally remodelled, is substantially unaltered externally. Outer face has an entrance consisting of a low-centred, ...
Stoneleigh Abbey Gatehouse which was built from red sandstone during the Medieval period. It is situated north east of the abbey remains.
1 The Abbey of Radmore was transferred to Stoneleigh in 1154-5. The foundation stone of the church of the new Cistercian Abbey was laid in 1155. In 1241 the monastery ...
The site of Stoneleigh Abbey, a Cistercian monastery that was founded during the Medieval period. Few traces of the abbey buildings survive above the ground except for the gatehouse. The site is located southwest of The National Agricultural Centre.
1 The S aisle of the conventual church partly survives in the N side of the present house. The semicircular arch at the E end was apparently between the aisle ...
Stoneleigh Abbey Church was built during the Medieval period. The church no longer exists in its own right but parts of if have been incorporated into a house that was on the same site. It is located to the east of the abbey remains.
Possible site of a Medieval moat.
1 An estate map from 1766 calls this field ‘Moat Close’.
2 This was not accessible during a site visit in 1983 so it was impossible ...
The site of a moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building. It is marked on an Estate Map of 1766 but might date back to the Medieval period. The site is located 800m northwest of Wainbody Wood, Stoneleigh.
Earthworks of Medieval fishponds.
1 Fishponds marked.
2 Fishponds marked.
3 1979: An area of ground around the old stew ponds was cleared. The intention was to clear the two ponds and possibly ...
Medieval fishponds used for the breeding and storing of fish, probably connected with the Medieval Abbey of Stoneleigh. There is documentary evidence for them from the 18th century. They are situated 1km southwest of the present Abbey.
1 There is a slide of a Medieval drain at the County Museum.
2 This area is now covered by agricultural buildings at the NAC and no traces remain.
The site of a Medieval drain. It was situated 500m north of Brick Kiln Spinney but the area has now been built upon.
1 Stareton is shown as populated on Dugdale’s map and is in the approximate position of the modern village.
2 An estate map from 1597 shows about 17 houses around Stareton ...
The possible site of an area of Medieval deserted settlement at Stareton. Some house platforms are visible as earthworks. The settlement lies in the area of Stareton.
1 In Stoneleigh there was a house called Fynborgh. It was given by Henry I.
2 ‘Great Finborough’, ‘Middle Finborough’ and ‘Far Finborough’ marked near to a barn called Finbury. JMM ...
Documentary evidence suggests that there was a Medieval house at Finbury. The site lies 600m north west of Chantry Heath Woods.
1 At Fynham anciently were twelve houses, of which eight were gone before the reign of Henry VII. There are here four houses and a mill.
2 Finham Park marked at ...
Documentary evidence suggests that the site of a Medieval deserted settlement lies 500m south east of Finham Bridge.
1 Fieldwork revealed a previously unrecorded deserted Medieval village site which lay immediately W of the Bypass route. House platforms are visible on either side of the present lane. Excavation ...
The site of King's Hill Medieval deserted settlement. A trackway, house platforms and an area of ridge and furrow cultivation are visible as earthworks. The settlement has been partially excavated. The site is located 400m south west of Finham Green.
1 Probably a ‘petty village’. It is recorded by Rous at the start of Henry VII’s reign as having been depopulated. There is one farm house.
2 Poor archaeology (C), period ...
The possible site of the Medieval deserted settlement of Milburn. A series of earthworks may represent the remains of the settlement. The site is located in the area either side of Milburn viaduct.
1 Westley Bridge is ‘Wolfyeuesbrygge, Wolfiesbrugge’ in the 13th century, ‘Wolsee Bridge’ in 1546, ‘Wolce Bridge’ in 1547.
2 The present bridge is single span, of red sandstone and brick. The ...
Westley Bridge, the remains of a possible Medieval/Post Medieval bridge, for which there is documentary evidence from the 13th century. The present bridge of red sandstone and brick incorporates older parts.
1 The Home Grange was the most important grange attached to Stoneleigh manor in 1291. It lay close to, and S of, the Abbey. The site of one of the ...
The site of Home Grange, a farm associated with Stoneleigh Abbey. The grange was situated 200m south east of site of the abbey.
1 Cryfield was said to have been the site of a royal residence called the Burystede, which was (presumably during the Anarchy) occupied by a foreign lord who was a ...
The possible site of a Medieval grange, an outlying farm, which belonged to Stoneleigh Abbey. It has also been suggested that this may be one of the original sites of Stoneleigh Abbey. It is situated 1km north of Crackley.
1 In 1564 this village paid a stone of wax yearly for maintenance of the lights in Stoneleigh Abbey. This place has also been depopulated; for, of twelve tenements that ...
The site of a Medieval deserted settlement is known to have existed from documentary evidence. The settlement was located 500m west of Gibbet Hill.
1 There are mill dams at SP2974 and SP3074. The N dam is 1m high with modern mutilation. The S dam is also mutilated. There are no traces of a ...
There is documentary evidence for a watermill at Cryfield Grange from the Medieval to the late Post Medieval period. It was recorded as a fulling mill in 1535. The dam banks remain visible as earthworks, 700m north east of Crackley Wood.
1 Stoneleigh Bridge retains, on its upstream side, much of its Medieval construction of local red sandstone, but the downstream side was added in 1824 during widening operations. It has ...
Stoneleigh Bridge, the remains of a Medieval road bridge, built of red sandstone, and widened in 1844. It is situated 200m northeast of St Mary's Church.
1 No trace exists of the bridge which, according to Dugdale, was reported to an enquiry of 1352 as being built by hermits out of alms. It may be the ...
Documentary evidence suggests that this is the site of Cloud Bridge, a Medieval bridge that crossed the Avon at the east side of Stoneleigh Park, immediately downstream of the present bridge. No trace of it remains.
1 In 1086 there were two priests in Stoneleigh and one of them had a chapel at Cloud. The priest was called Edmund the Hermit, presumably because this was a ...
The site of a possible hermitage, a retreat used in this case by a priest. The hermitage dated to the Medieval period. It was situated to the east of Cloud Bridge.
