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Langley Palace is a site of a royal hunting lodge and associated earthworks located near Langley Farm in Oxfordshire. The palace served as a medieval royal residence connected to the hunting pursuits of the English crown, with the scheduled monument encompassing both the palace structures and surrounding landscape features including an enclosure and later garden earthworks. The site preserves archaeological evidence of occupation and use across an extended period, reflecting the changing function and layout of the royal complex over time. The earthworks visible on the site provide important testimony to medieval aristocratic landscape management and the physical arrangement of a significant royal hunting establishment.
Site of Langley Palace royal hunting lodge, an associated enclosure and later garden earthworks at Langley Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008495. View the official record →
Langley Palace is a site of a royal hunting lodge and associated earthworks located near Langley Farm in Oxfordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008495.
Site of Langley Palace royal hunting lodge, an associated enclosure and later garden earthworks at Langley 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 1008495.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pair of Bronze Age bowl barrows 150m north of Roustage Wood (1.8 km), Pair of confluent bowl barrows 200m SSW of Bockett's Corner on Leigh Hale Plain (2.6 km), Pain's Farm bowl barrow 30m south of Pain's Farm Cottages (2.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Site of Langley Palace royal hunting lodge, an associated enclosure and later garden earthworks at Langley 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.
Site of Langley Palace royal hunting lodge, an associated enclosure and later garden earthworks at Langley Farm stands on Great Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is sandstone, limestone and argillaceous rocks.