2 Ridge and furrow cultivation transcribed from air photographs.
Medieval and later ridge and furrow cultivation in Lighthorne Parish. In some areas it is survives as an earthwork. Elsewhere it is visible on aerial photographs.
1 Lightorne Recotry (Old Rectory), Lighthorne.
Lovie reports a vill with pleasure grounds; paddocks with boundary planting and pond; kitchen garden.
C17th house with pleasure grounds, paddocks and kitchen garden.
1 Two fishponds marked.
2 Situated in a small steep-sided valley to the SW of the church. One of these ponds (SP3355) is now silted up and marshy. The other (SP3356) ...
Medieval/Post Medieval fishponds, used for the breeding and storage of fish. They are still visible as earthworks and are situated 200m west of the church at Lighthorne.
1 The possible extent of Medieval settlement, based on the first edition 6″ map of 1886, 45NE.
2 The ridge and furrow plotting of the parish shows patchy survival
3 Lighthorne is ...
The possible extent of Medieval settlement of Lighthorne. The area of settlement is suggested by documentary evidence and the remains of ridge and furrow cultivation.
1 A windmill belonging to the manor of Lighthorne is recorded in 1316 and in 1627.
2 Great Mill Field.
3 Great Mill Field centred on the above grid ...
The possible site of a Medieval windmill suggested by documentary sources. It may have stood 300m north west of the church at Lighthorne.
1 Civil War hoard 1642-49. SP342558. Half crowns, shillings and sixpences – England, Scotland and Ireland. Edward VI to Charles 1: 1551-1645/6. Their value in 1645 would have been £4 ...
Findspot - a hoard of silver coins, all dating to the Post Medieval period, were found in Old School Lane, Lighthorne.
1 Very little remains. Would appear to have been a square socket stone, but impossible to state with any degree of certainty details of shaft. The whole ...
The remains of a Medieval cross. Only the socket stone and a small part of the shaft survive. It is situated in the churchyard of St Lawrence's Church, Lighthorne.