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| CHER Number: | 02601 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Bowling green (site of) and possible artillery fort, Hinchingbrooke Road |
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Summary
18th century maps depict a bowling green, the shape of which includes four clear bastions.
| Grid Reference: | TL 232 717 |
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| Parish: | Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire |
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Monument Type(s):
Full description
R1. An area identified as a bowling green that also looks like a fortress has been seen on this map.
R2. Jeffery's Map of 1768 shows a bowling green in this location. However the shape of it includes four clearly defined bastions that suggest an artillery battery dating from the English Civil War. The location alongside Brampton Road, one of the main routes into Huntingdon, supports the presence of a battery here. The site is lost and may now lie under the railway.
1752, Survey of Hospital Lands in Huntingdon (Bibliographic reference). SCB96.
Jeffrey, 1768, Map of Huntingdon (Map). SCB6694.
Osborne, M., 1990, Cromwellian Fortifications in Cambridgeshire, pp.28-30 (Bibliographic reference). SCB9943.
Sources and further reading
| <R1> | Bibliographic reference: 1752. Survey of Hospital Lands in Huntingdon. |
| <R2> | Map: Jeffrey. 1768. Map of Huntingdon. |
| <R3> | Bibliographic reference: Osborne, M.. 1990. Cromwellian Fortifications in Cambridgeshire. pp.28-30. |
Related records
| MCB17283 | Related to: Battle of Huntingdon (1645) (Monument) |
| 02547 | Related to: Civil War battery at Clayton's Way (Monument) |
| MCB17281 | Related to: Possible Artillery Bastion, Spring Common, Huntingdon (Monument) |
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