I have lived near Bishop’s Tachbrook, for many years and have been researching my house’s history for a considerable time. When studying the 1887 25” Ordnance Survey map for the ...
1 The modern Oakley Wood was originally known as three separate woodlands – Oakley Wood, Moreton Close and Wiggerland Wood. Oakley Wood has long been known to be ...
The greater woodbank encloses Oakley Wood and may date from about 1300. The banks around Moreton Wood and Wiggerland Wood are smaller.
1 Naspis ‘which hath not now above four houses in it, but anciently it was more populous.’
2 Rous names this village as destroyed. I identify this village as ‘The Aspes’, ...
The site of a deserted settlement dating to the Post Medieval period. It is known from documentary evidence. Encloures and trackways are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The site is located 600m south east of Nursery Wood.
2 Trackway shows as crop mark.
A trackway of unknown date is visible as a crop mark on aerial photographs. It is situated 400m north west of Grove Farm.
1 Marl pit identified during field survey.
The site of a marl pit, from which a mixture of clay and carbonate of lime would have been extracted, of unknown date. It is situated 600m north of Tatchbrook Mallory.
1 A field barn with phases of rebuilding. 1806: site occupied by 2 buildings on estate map; by 1844 a new winged farm is shown. This is probably the building ...
A barn which was probably built during the Imperial period. It is situated 800m south west of Highdown Hill Plantation.
12 Trackway, linear features and a series of interconnected enclosures show on aerial photographs. A number of maculae are visible towards the NNW corner of the main enclosure, ...
A trackway, other linear features, and a series of enclosures, of unknown date, are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are located 900m north west of Half Moon Plantation.
2 Undated linear crop marks show on aerial photographs.
Linear features of unknown date are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are located 400m south east of Lodge Wood.
2 Linear features and possible enclosures show as crop marks. These features are dubious and may not be archaeological.
Possible linear features and enclosures are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. They are of unknown date. The features are located 600m north of Wiggerland Wood.
1 In 1086 there were two mills at Bishops Tachbrook but nothing is known of these after the 16th century. Ford Mill stood some distance downstream from the probable site ...
The site of Ford Mill, for which there is documentary evidence from the Medieval period to the early Imperial period. Traces of the head race are still visible. The site is in Warwick Castle Park, on the north side of New Waters.
1 Naspes ‘which hath not now above four houses in it, but anciently it was more populous.’
2 Rous names this village as destroyed. I identify this village as ‘The Aspes’, ...
Cropmarks and documantary evidence suggest that there is a Medieval deserted settlement 400m south east of the Asps. The settlement may have been called Naspes.
This substantial map1 indicates the lands owned by the Sir Edward Bagot (1674-1712) in the Manor of Tachbrook, located just south of Warwick. The ancient manor of Tachbrook was initially ...
1 The depopulation appears to have taken place in 1505 and is recorded as resulting from the enclosure of 310 acres. 60 people were forced to leave sorrowfully. ...
The possible site of the deserted Medieval settlement of Tachbrook Mallory which is indicated by a scatter of pottery. The site lies to the north of Chapel Hill Farm.
2 A linear cropmark feature has been identified on air photographs.
A linear feature is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is of unknown date. The feature is located 900m north west of Chesterton Stud.