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Coughton Park
Hob Uid: 328797
Location : Warwickshire Stratford-on-Avon Sambourne, Coughton
Grid Ref : SP0654460745
Summary : Deer park with earthworks of the park pale surviving on three sides. The line of the south-east side is uncertain. the enclosure was made in 1486 or 1487, with an expansion in 1550 that included "Wikewood". The village of Wick (NMR number 328788, SP 06 SE 13) lies within the bounds of the deer park and was depopulated by 1725.
More information : (SP 0660) Coughton Park (TU) (1) Coughton, enclosed during Henry VII. Appears on maps of Saxton and Speed. (2) The whole of the perimeter of this park is either extant or traceable. The road on the north-east is paled on both sides for about a mile. A low ridge in the plough indicates the pale, originally continued to Wike Moat (SP 072 606), while from SP 0691 6017 it is traceable as a ditch through the plough in direction of Coughton Lodge and, presumably, Wike Moat. Surveyed at 1/2500. (3) WIKE in Coughton (centred: SP 074 607) [NMR number 328788, SP 06 SE13]. V.C.H. says that Wike is a lost hamlet, Dugdale says "being totally appears in the 1517 Inquiry, when the enclosure is dated to 1487(a). Wikewood was not enclosed until 1550(b). (4) "Wike wood is in the area emparked by Robert Throckmorton in 1486. By Dugdale's time it had ceased to have any separate existence and is marked as a depopulated place in Beigthon's map of 1725." (5)

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Source details : O.S. 6" 1905.
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Source details : English Deerparks, 1867, 159. (Shirley)
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Source details : F1 BHS 20-JUN-68
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Source Number : 4
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Source details : T. Birm A. S., 66, 1945-6, 104. (M. W. Beresford).
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Source Number : 4A
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Source details : Domesday of Inclosures, 1897, 540. (Leadam).
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Source Number : 4B
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Source details : Ibid n.4.
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Source Number : 5
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Source details : V.C.H., Warw., 3, 1945, 74. (M. Midgeley & E. Scroggs).
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Built in 1486-1487.
Monument End Date : 1487
Monument Start Date : 1486
Monument Type : Deer Park, Park Pale
Evidence : Extant Structure

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Extended in 1550.
Monument End Date : 1550
Monument Start Date : 1550
Monument Type : Deer Park
Evidence : Extant Structure

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SP 06 SE 16
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Relationship type : General association

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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1968-06-20
End Date : 1968-06-20

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Coughton Park