1 A turnpike established between 1750 and 1775. First Act 1754-5.
A toll road running from Ryton Bridge to Banbury, via Southam. Travellers would have paid to use the road during the Imperial period.
1 A charter of AD 956 refers to the ‘straete’. This is the Banbury-Southam road running along the Wormleighton parish boundary.
An Early Medieval road or trackway which is referred to in a 10th century charter. It now forms the Banbury to Southam road and runs along the parish boundary of Wormleighton.
1 This is in the Hodnell group of villages. Hodnell parish consisted in its heyday of Hodnell, Chapel Ascote, Watergall and Wills Pastures. The site is visible on aerial photographs ...
The site of the deserted settlment of Watergall which dates to the Medieval period. House platforms, crofts and hollow ways are visible as substantial earthworks. The site is located west of Watergall Bridge.
1 An eminence with an irregular hollow 37m across and 1.5 or 1.8m deep, in the centre of which is a ‘singular rectangular pit’ lined with dressed stone, having angle ...
'Monks' Well', a rectangular well, lined with dressed stone, which dates from the Medieval/Post Medieval period. Its top is modern. It is situated 600m west of Watergall Bridge.
1 A decorated Samian ware sherd was found by the son of the farmer about 1970. The sherd remains with the owner.
Findspot - a pottery sherd dating to the Roman period was found 400m north west of Watergall Bridge.
1 There is a waterfilled pond on the E side of the deserted settlement. Earthworks on the N and W side of the pond may suggest that it was once ...
A fishpond used for the breeding and storage of fish which dates from the Medieval/Post Medieval period. It is visible as an earthwork and is situated to the west of Watergall Bridge.
1 A mound at the N end of the deserted settlement probably denotes the dove house that is marked on a map of 1722.
3 Plan.
An earthwork that may be the site of a dovecote, a building used for the breeding and housing of doves and pigeons. It would date to the Post Medieval period, and is shown on an eighteenth century map. It is situated south west of the Manor Farm at Watergall.
1 The farm of Watergall, with some of the enclosure walls which still remain, formed part of an old mansion, the rest of which was pulled down in 1814.
2 Noted ...
The site of a mansion which was built during the Imperial period and part of which was pulled down in 1814. The rest of the building was incorporated into a farm and is situated near Watergall Bridge.
2 Ridge and furrow cultivation transcribed from air photographs.
Medieval/Post Medieval ridge and furrow cultivation in Watergall Parish. The remains are visible on aerial photographs. Elsewhere in the parish some remains are visible as earthworks.
1 A well (PRN 813) provides water which is piped to an arched reservoir 27m to the E, from where it flows to the house. On the lintel of the ...
The site of a reservoir dating to the Post Medieval period. It supplied water from a well to a house and is enclosed in a stone building. Above the doorway of the building is a date stone of 1697. It is situated 600m west of Watergall Bridge.