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Summary

A circular plantation, a landscape feature of probable 18th to 19th century date, is depicted on the Tithe map for Holcombe Burnell. The clump is named Stilefield Clump from the Ordnance Survey First Edition 25inch Map onwards and remains extant. The plantation bank and a relict field boundary within the plantation are visible as earthworks on images derived from lidar data.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Stilefield Clump. Post medieval designed landscape tree clump, east of Cotley Kiln

Other References/Statuses

• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• PLANTATION (XVIII to XIX - 1750 AD? (Between) to 1840 AD (Between))

Full description

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.

A circular enclosure is depicted, listed on the Tithe Apportionments as Brake and Plantation’. The occupier and owner is named as James Pitman Esq of South Ramridge,

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

The plantation is depicted and named as Stilefield Clump.

Environment Agency, 2021, University of Exeter Understanding Landscapes Project - Lidar visualisation (Cartographic). SDV366001.

A circular banked enclosure is visible.

Hegarty, C., 2025, Comment on Unlocking Landscapes project and related lidar and aerial photograph interpretations (Interpretation). SDV366411.

A circular plantation, an ornamental landscape feature or ‘eye catcher’ of probable 18th to 19th century date, is depicted on the Tithe map for Holcombe Burnell. The tithe apportionments described the cultivation of the plot as ‘Brake and Plantation’, which might indicate that it was a relatively recent creation in circa 1840. The occupier and owner is named as James Pitman Esq of South Ramridge, which was presumably in the vicinity of North Ramridge, approximately 750m east of the clump, and intervisible with it.
The clump is named Stilefield Clump on maps from the Ordnance Survey First Edition 25inch Map onwards and remains extant. The plantation bank and a section of relict field post-medieval boundary preserved within the plantation are visible as earthworks on images derived from lidar data.

Horner, B., 2025, Lidar interpretation (Personal Comment). SDV366415.

Landscape feature. On TM (Brake and Plantation) and OS 1st Ed (Stilefield Clump).

Ordnance Survey, 2026, Mastermap 2026 (Cartographic). SDV366713.

Stilefield Clump. It now has a covered reservoir within it.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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