NHER 17495 (Place record) - Possible site of post-medieval icehouse

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Summary

This wood is called Icehouse Wood on an old map suggesting there may once have been an icehouse here.

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None recorded

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Map sheet	TM39SW
Civil Parish	EARSHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Icehouse Wood.
Marked on (S1).
Site of icehouse? Informant states he has lived here for 20 years and never found the icehouse. He states that the trees have been replanted, rubbish from the Hall dumped here in large quantities, and a sewage farm, now disused, established. Any of these could have destroyed it. However there is no source of ice near at hand, though this is sometimes the case with Norfolk icehouses.
E. Rose (NAU), 20 August 1981.

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
<S1> SNF52733 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1902-1907. Ordnance Survey Map. 25 inch to the mile. Second Edition. 1:2500.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

ICEHOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

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Record last edited

May 27 2025 12:22PM