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Animal pound on Woodbury Road, 275m south east of the church

England
List entry 1019047
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1019047
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.01 hectares
Grid reference
SX 98511 88659
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Animal pound on Woodbury Road is a medieval or post-medieval structure located in Devon, south-east of the parish church. The monument comprises an enclosure designed to impound stray livestock, a common feature of English settlements from the medieval period onwards. Such pounds served an essential administrative and economic function within manorial systems, allowing communities to contain wandering animals until owners paid a fine for their recovery. The Woodbury example survives as a scheduled ancient monument and remains an important record of rural management practices and settlement organisation in Devon.

Animal pound on Woodbury Road, 275m south east of the church is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019047. View the official record →

About this monument

Questions & answers

What is Animal pound on Woodbury Road, 275m south east of the church?

Animal pound on Woodbury Road is a medieval or post-medieval structure located in Devon, south-east of the parish church. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019047.

Who is responsible for protecting Animal pound on Woodbury Road, 275m south east of the church?

Animal pound on Woodbury Road, 275m south east of the church is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1019047.

What other scheduled monuments are near Animal pound on Woodbury Road, 275m south east of the church?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Clyst St Mary Bridge and causeway (2.8 km), Woodbury Castle (4.9 km), St Loye's Chapel and cross, Rifford Road (5.1 km).

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Monuments
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Battlefields
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Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Clyst St Mary Bridge and causeway
2.8 km
Woodbury Castle
4.9 km
St Loye's Chapel and cross, Rifford Road
5.1 km
Four bowl barrows at Four Firs on Woodbury Common
5.1 km
Two bowl barrows on Colaton Raleigh Common, 500m north and 780m north east of Woodbury Castle
5.3 km
Earthwork enclosure 220yds (200m) NE of Church Path Hill Plantation
5.3 km
Two bowl barrows on Woodbury Common, both 330m east of Four Firs
5.4 km
Earthwork enclosure S of Blackall's Copse
5.5 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Animal pound on Woodbury Road, 275m south east of the church

Animal pound on Woodbury Road, 275m south east of the church stands on Permian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

The wider landscape

Around Animal pound on Woodbury Road, 275m south east of the church

ExeterRoman town · ~4.8 miles
Domesday entry for Clyst, Devon →
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