NHER 40187 (Monument record) - Long Row

2004. Earthwork Rapid Identification Survey.
Norfolk Ancient Woodland Historic Environment Rapid Identification Survey Pilot Study.
Long Row:
An unusual shaped wood, looking more a remnant of green lanes. However linear north to south banks and ditches, one coincident with a former parish boundary line, suggest some age.
See report (S1) for further information, including detailed descriptions of the individual features identified (Contexts 1-8). The results of this survey are also summarised in (S2).
B. Cushion, June 2004. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 29 June 2015.

The ancient woodland is largely dominated by outgrown hornbeam and hazel coppice and has an unusual form of a long narrow rectangle 1.1. kilometers long orientated north to south on the parish boundary between Hedeham and Ditchingham. Waterman's map 1617 shows that it was even longer at this time and extended for nearly half a kilometer further to the north. The wood is aligned at right angles to the Broome Beck, with the dominant 'grain' of the coaxial landscape which occupies the north of the estate. The earthworks associated with the woodland comprise low external banks of normal medieval form with three narrow linear depressions running across the wood from east to west. The shape of the woodland and its relationship to the topography and field pattern may suggest that it originated as a road rather than a wood of medieval date.
See (S3).
S. Howard (HES), 3 November 2011.