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Grim's Bank is a linear earthwork located in Ufton Park, Berkshire, extending approximately 900 yards southwestward from New Plantation towards a point near Rectory Farm. The monument represents a substantial defensive or territorial boundary bank, characteristic of Anglo-Saxon or early medieval construction, though definitive dating remains uncertain without excavation. The surviving section demonstrates the characteristic form of such linear features, comprising an earth bank that would have functioned either as a frontier demarcation or defensive barrier across the landscape. Its survival within the parkland setting has preserved an important example of early medieval land division and territorial organisation in Berkshire, recording patterns of settlement and control from the early post-Roman period.
Grim's Bank: section extending SW 900yds (825m) from New Plantation, Ufton Park, to a point 250yds (230m) SE of Rectory is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005376. View the official record →
Grim's Bank is a linear earthwork located in Ufton Park, Berkshire, extending approximately 900 yards southwestward from New Plantation towards a point near Rectory Farm. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005376.
Grim's Bank: section extending SW 900yds (825m) from New Plantation, Ufton Park, to a point 250yds (230m) SE of Rectory 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 1005376.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Late Iron Age oppidum and Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum and associated features (3.6 km), Flex Ditch (3.9 km), Three sections of a linear earthwork between Churchlane Copse and Early Bridge Copse, south of Silchester (4.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Grim's Bank: section extending SW 900yds (825m) from New Plantation, Ufton Park, to a point 250yds (230m) SE of Rectory'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.
Grim's Bank: section extending SW 900yds (825m) from New Plantation, Ufton Park, to a point 250yds (230m) SE of Rectory stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.