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Decoy Pond 350m south of Aslackby Decoy Farm is a post-medieval duck decoy located in Lincolnshire. The site consists of a pond with associated decoy pipes, structures designed to trap wildfowl for food and profit during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Duck decoys were particularly widespread across lowland England during this period, representing an important means of game management and sustenance before the industrial era. The monument survives as a notable example of post-medieval hunting technology and landscape management practice.
Decoy pond 350m south of Aslackby Decoy Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016472. View the official record →
Decoy Pond 350m south of Aslackby Decoy Farm is a post-medieval duck decoy located in Lincolnshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016472.
Decoy pond 350m south of Aslackby Decoy Farm 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 1016472.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman settlement by Fen Road, south of Poplar Farm (1.9 km), Moated site NE of Sempringham House Farm (2.5 km), Settlement between Long Drove and Dowsby Drain (2.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Decoy pond 350m south of Aslackby Decoy Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Decoy pond 350m south of Aslackby Decoy Farm stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.