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The medieval field system 250m north of Church End Farm is a scheduled ancient monument in Lincolnshire comprising ridge and furrow earthworks characteristic of open field agriculture. The system dates to the medieval period and represents the communal arable farming practices that dominated the English countryside from the Anglo-Saxon period through the post-medieval era. Ridge and furrow patterns such as these are formed by the repeated ploughing of strips of land, creating distinctive parallel ridges separated by furrows that remain visible as archaeological features in the landscape. This particular example survives as earthwork evidence of the intensive cultivation and land management strategies employed by medieval agricultural communities in this region of Lincolnshire.
Medieval field system 250m north of Church End Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009978. View the official record →
The medieval field system 250m north of Church End Farm is a scheduled ancient monument in Lincolnshire comprising ridge and furrow earthworks characteristic of open field agriculture.
Medieval field system 250m north of Church End 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 1009978.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval moated site and post-medieval gardens at Cressy Hall (4.2 km), Stump Cross (5.3 km), Butter cross, Swineshead (5.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Medieval field system 250m north of Church End 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.
Medieval field system 250m north of Church End Farm stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.