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Rabbit Warren on Warren Hills is a post-medieval artificial warren, located in Leicestershire, that was created to support the managed breeding and harvesting of rabbits for food and fur. The warren dates from the early modern period and represents an important example of the commercial exploitation of land during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. The site's physical character is marked by a series of banks, ditches, and earthworks that would have facilitated the containment and management of rabbit populations within defined boundaries. Such warrens were a significant feature of the early modern landscape, demonstrating the value placed on rabbit farming as a productive use of marginal or uncultivated land.
Rabbit warren on Warren Hills is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018001. View the official record →
Rabbit Warren on Warren Hills is a post-medieval artificial warren, located in Leicestershire, that was created to support the managed breeding and harvesting of rabbits for food and fur. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018001.
Rabbit warren on Warren Hills 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 1018001.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moated site east of Kellam's Farm (2.3 km), Whitwick Castle (2.7 km), Grace Dieu Priory with two ponds and a fishpond, Belton (4.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Rabbit warren on Warren Hills'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.
Rabbit warren on Warren Hills stands on Unnamed Metasedimentary Rocks, Neoproterozoic, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and conglomerate.