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| HHER Number: | 11165 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | WALKERN BURY FARM, WALKERN |
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Summary
Post-medieval farmstead at medieval site
Monument Types
- FARMSTEAD (Post Medieval - 1501 AD to 1900 AD)
- MODEL FARM (Post Medieval - 1501 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
'Walkern Bury' is shown on the 1878 OS map <1> as a farmstead, with the house and its garden north of the medieval ringwork [33]. North of the house was a small group of farm buildings around an irregular yard in the usual post-medieval arrangement. SW of the house, however, was a second yard, laid out as a much larger planned farm of 19th century form. The 1898 map <2> shows this in more detail. Some of the buildings were open-fronted, and both yards were divided into compartments. The planned part intruded into the medieval earthworks, with the water-filled ditch curving northwards to make a pond between the yard and the house.
The older buildings north of the house were all demolished at some time in the 20th century; the house has been rebuilt, and the planned farmstead has been converted <3>.
<1> OS 25 inch map, 1st edition, 1878 (Cartographic material). SHT8116.
<2> OS 25 inch map, 2nd edition (1897-1901), Sheet XIII-10 (1898) (Cartographic material). SHT8113.
<3> Hertfordshire County Council, HCC vertical photomapping, 2010 (Aerial Photograph). SHT8853.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Cartographic material: OS 25 inch map, 1st edition. 1878. |
| <2> | Cartographic material: OS 25 inch map, 2nd edition (1897-1901). Sheet XIII-10 (1898). |
| <3> | Aerial Photograph: Hertfordshire County Council. HCC vertical photomapping, 2010. |
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