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Woodhall Farm enclosure, situated 600 metres east of the farm itself in East Lothian, is a post-medieval agricultural enclosure. It represents the field management practices of early modern farming, when landowners and tenant farmers progressively reorganised their land into defined, bounded plots. The enclosure would have served practical purposes: containing livestock, protecting crops, and delineating ownership or tenancy boundaries across what was likely open or strip-farmed land in earlier periods.
The monument lies upon bedrock of the Reston Group, a geological formation of Early Devonian age comprising interbedded conglomerate and sandstone. This foundation would have influenced both the site's drainage and the type of stone available to the farmers who built the enclosure's boundaries. The local geology thus shaped the practical choices made during construction, whether in gathering stone for drystone walls or understanding how water would move across the field system.
The enclosure is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5930, reflecting its significance as physical evidence of agricultural development and land use patterns in post-medieval East Lothian. Such enclosures, often humble and undocumented, form a crucial part of understanding how the rural landscape was transformed and managed over centuries.
Woodhall Farm,enclosure 600m E of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5930. View the official record →
Woodhall Farm enclosure, situated 600 metres east of the farm itself in East Lothian, is a post-medieval agricultural enclosure. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5930.
Woodhall Farm,enclosure 600m E of dates from the post-medieval period, and is classified as a enclosure. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Woodhall Farm,enclosure 600m E of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM5930.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Blackcastle Hill,homestead 1300m SSE of Thurston Mains (1.7 km), Oldhamstocks Mains,enclosure 300m NNW of (4.4 km), Springfield,enclosure 300m NNE of (5.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Woodhall Farm,enclosure 600m E of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Woodhall Farm,enclosure 600m E of stands on Reston Group, bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is conglomerate and [subequal/subordinate] sandstone, interbedded.