Scheduled MonumentsEnglandCivil War gun battery and covered way immediately south east of Wiverton Hall

Civil War gun battery and covered way immediately south east of Wiverton Hall

England
List entry 1017404
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1017404
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.89 hectares
Grid reference
SK 71407 36320, SK 71406 36206
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

The Civil War gun battery and covered way immediately south east of Wiverton Hall is a seventeenth-century military fortification constructed during the English Civil War. The site comprises defensive earthwork features including a gun battery position and an associated covered way, which would have provided protected movement and artillery placement during the conflict. Such fortifications around major houses like Wiverton Hall reflect the strategic importance of the locality and the necessity for landholding families to prepare defensive works against military operations. The earthworks survive as archaeological remains that document the physical impact of Civil War military activity upon the Nottinghamshire landscape.

Civil War gun battery and covered way immediately south east of Wiverton Hall is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017404. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Civil War gun battery and covered way immediately south east of Wiverton Hall?

The Civil War gun battery and covered way immediately south east of Wiverton Hall is a seventeenth-century military fortification constructed during the English Civil War. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017404.

Who is responsible for protecting Civil War gun battery and covered way immediately south east of Wiverton Hall?

Civil War gun battery and covered way immediately south east of Wiverton Hall 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 1017404.

What other scheduled monuments are near Civil War gun battery and covered way immediately south east of Wiverton Hall?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moated site and fishponds 225m north of Wiverton Hall (0.3 km), St Mary's Church (3.1 km), Medieval market cross and 19th century commemorative cross (3.4 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
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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The ground beneath

The bedrock under Civil War gun battery and covered way immediately south east of Wiverton Hall

Civil War gun battery and covered way immediately south east of Wiverton Hall stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

The wider landscape

Around Civil War gun battery and covered way immediately south east of Wiverton Hall

ThorpeRoman town · ~9.2 milesAncasterRoman town · ~17.3 milesBattle of Stoke (Field) 1487Battle (1487) · ~8.2 miles