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Succession of rectilinear enclosures SW of Shelford Manor is a scheduled ancient monument comprising a series of rectangular earthwork enclosures situated to the southwest of Shelford Manor in Nottinghamshire. The monument represents evidence of settlement organisation and land use patterns, with the rectilinear form of the enclosures suggesting planned arrangement typical of medieval or post-medieval agricultural management. The earthworks survive as visible banks and ditches that delineate individual enclosure plots, indicating intensive use of this landscape for pastoral or arable farming purposes. The site contributes to understanding the development of the wider Shelford landscape and the relationship between manorial centres and their surrounding productive lands.
Succession of rectilinear enclosures SW of Shelford Manor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006372. View the official record →
Succession of rectilinear enclosures SW of Shelford Manor is a scheduled ancient monument comprising a series of rectangular earthwork enclosures situated to the southwest of Shelford Manor in Nottinghamshire.
Succession of rectilinear enclosures SW of Shelford Manor 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 1006372.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Civil War gun battery 50m south west of St Peters and St Paul's Church (1.1 km), Henge 120m south of Lodge Farm (1.8 km), Motte and bailey castle adjacent to River Trent (1.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Succession of rectilinear enclosures SW of Shelford Manor'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.
Succession of rectilinear enclosures SW of Shelford Manor stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.