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Ditchley Park Roman villa is a substantial Roman country estate situated in Oxfordshire, approximately 450 metres east-north-east of Lodge Farm. The villa complex dates to the Roman period and represents the kind of high-status agricultural and residential settlement characteristic of Romano-British landholding in the second and third centuries. The site includes structural remains of the villa buildings themselves along with evidence of an associated field system, indicating an organized landscape devoted to farming and estate management. As a designated heritage monument, the villa preserves important archaeological evidence of Roman rural settlement patterns and the prosperity of the Romano-British landed elite in the Oxfordshire region.
Ditchley Park Roman villa and part of an associated field system 450m ENE of Lodge Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009420. View the official record →
Ditchley Park Roman villa is a substantial Roman country estate situated in Oxfordshire, approximately 450 metres east-north-east of Lodge Farm. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009420.
Ditchley Park Roman villa and part of an associated field system 450m ENE of Lodge 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 1009420.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Oaklands Farm Roman villa (3.9 km), Fawler Roman villa (4.2 km), Ten medieval pillow mounds and part of an associated enclosure 300m north west of Combe Lodge (4.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Ditchley Park Roman villa and part of an associated field system 450m ENE of Lodge 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.
Ditchley Park Roman villa and part of an associated field system 450m ENE of Lodge Farm stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.