More information : SP 200368 DMV Upper Ditchford. (1) The villages of Ditchford Tres (see also SP 23 NW 1 and 10), now partly in Warwickshire (2), were noted in 1491 by John Rous, a priest of Warwick, to have become ruinous in his lifetime (3). One of the hamlets lay around the present Upper Ditchford Farm (4) ("Neighbrook" is described as "Upper Ditchford" on the OS 6" of 1924), and a clear pattern of earthworks is visible on APs (5 & 6). (2-6) The site of the village of Upper Ditchford is indicated by an area of banked and ditched enclosures, some 200.0m by 170.0m across, and centred at SP19953682, situated upon a SW-facing pasture slope. The banks, generally reduced to outward or downhill-facing scarps, are 0.3 to 0.7m in height, the ditches, up to 0.3m in depth. Amongst the enclosures, about five house platforms are recognisable, whilst upon the NE uphill side of the site are four larger terraces which may have accommodated a number of buildings. The village was surrounded by rig and furrow cultivation. Surveyed at 1:2500. (7)
Upper Ditchford: published aerial photograph of deserted village earthworks taken 27-JAN-1969. (8)
SP 200 368. Upper Ditchford listed in review of deserted medieval villages in Gloucestershire. (9)
The earthworks described by the previous authorities have been mapped from aerial photographs.(11-12)
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