| Summary: | Yadsworthy: alt.244m. Vis=10/5/1978 (hankin). Yadsworthy farm at sx63176076 is in cornwood parish. An abandoned field system e of the farm and in harford parish may be the enclosure of an earlier settlement or farmstead. An area of c 34 acres, circular in shape, centred at sx636-608-, is bounded on the e by an earth bank, no longer in use as a field boundary, c 2m wide, with a ditch c 0.6m deep on the inner side; a ditch c 1m or more deep on the outer side. The n and s boundaries are stone walls of later newtakes. The w side near the farm is an earth bank with some stone, and forms the parish boundary cornwood-harford. An abandoned earth bank of similar construction runs from the e boundary bank towards the centre of the enclosure where it meets a well preserved wall of stone (on the e surface) and earth (on the w surface) running n-s. The western half of the enclosure is divided into three fields of sheep pasture, well cleared of stones and furze. The stone walls of these fields are neglected and broken. In the sw corner of the enclosure, stone walls of a few metres length suggest the site of a deserted settlement of farmstead. At the s boundary close by, a spring feeds a stream which flows w to yadsworthy farm. The burford down stone row (sx63706017) south of the enclosure, is believed to have had its n terminal stone at a point a few metres within the enclosure near the e earth bank. Vis=visible and recorded (rchm app 1985). |
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