Monument record RGV 022 - Redgrave Park (Med)
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Summary
Location
Grid reference | Centred TM 057 769 (1446m by 1474m) (2 map features) |
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Map sheet | TM07NE |
Civil Parish | BOTESDALE, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK |
Civil Parish | REDGRAVE, MID SUFFOLK, SUFFOLK |
Map
Type and Period (3)
Full Description
"Redgrave Park was a deer park of about 200 acres enclosed by oak palings and is shown on Saxton's map of 1575" (S1)(R1)(R2)(S4).
Relatively extensive ?pale & ?partition banks shown on 1:10560 map (S2). Now only apparently survive in NW quadrant - rest ploughed away? (S3). For Redgrave Hall, originally hunting lodge of Abbots of Bury, see RGV 014. The deerpark is first documented circa 1540 (SRO/B P551/1066) but may originate much earlier.
For landscaping by Capability Brown, see PMed. Formerly recorded under RGV 014.
For PMed ice-house on N edge of park, see RGV 023.
Sources/Archives (7)
- <R1> SSF23078 (No record type): Whitaker J, The Deer Parks & Paddocks of England, 1892, 144.
- <S1> SSF50032 Index: OS. OS Card. OS, card TM07NE37, 1977.
- <S2> SSF12646 (No record type): OS, 1:10560 map, TM 07 NE, circa 1958.
- <R2> SSF21213 (No record type): Shirley E P, English Deer Parks, 1867, 118.
- <S3> SSF12555 (No record type): OS, 1:10000 map, TM 07 NE, 1984.
- <S4> SSF58663 Bibliographic reference: Liddiard, R. (ed). 2007. The Medieval Park: New Perspectives. Hoppitt R, 'Hunting Suffolk's Parks: towards a reliable chronology of imparkment' 157, 162.
- <S5> SSF59794 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record Of the Historic Environment.
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Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Apr 21 2021 9:49AM