NHER 31607 (Monument record) - Wighton post medieval water meadows

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Summary

Earthworks of post medieval water meadows can be seen on aerial photographs. The brick culverts and sluices were created around 1802 and modified soon after. They have now been destroyed.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TF93NE
Civil Parish HINDRINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK
Civil Parish WALSINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK
Civil Parish WIGHTON, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Large site includes NHER 25399, NHER 28562, NHER 28561 and NHER 28560.

1946. RAF air photograph.
Earthworks of flooded area of meadows with two areas of north to south ditches. Rather subdued, straddling main watercourse. The flooded area is in the west of TF 9438. To east, various channels indicate the feeder complex.

1970. Ordnance Survey air photograph.
Area now arable, cropmarks of part of flooded area, most channels upstream still visible.

1995. Visit.
In conversation with [1] who remembered them being bulldozed, many brick culverts and sluices were destroyed. West end ground visited, no features except brick culvert across main channel. The complex was formed in 1802 and modified soon after.
See (S1).
B. Cushion (NLA) October 1995.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: TF 93/TF 9437/B, 70 008 211.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Article in Serial: Wade-Martins, S. and Williamson, T. 1994. Floated water-meadows in Norfolk: a misplaced innovation?. Agricultural History Review. Vol 42 Pt 1 pp 20-37.

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Record last edited

Apr 25 2022 3:35PM

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