NHER 52459 (Monument record) - Post medieval boundaries and drainage features

November 2009. Norfolk NMP.
Numerous earthwork ditches and banks are visible on aerial photographs to the east of the Manor House at Framingham Pigot (S1-S3). None of these earthworks was mapped as they predominantly relate to boundary and drainage features depicted on the Framingham Pigot Tithe map of 1840 (S4). The site is centred on TG 2766 0381. The Tithe map shows a system of land boundaries and drainage works that predate the changes to the landscape associated with the building of a new Manor House in the 1860s (NHER 9911). An earlier predecessor to this house is depicted on the Tithe map along with a number of landscape features, such as belts of trees and ponds, probably associated with the creation of a formal landscape around the house. These are predominantly located to the west of the house. To the east of the Manor House land boundaries and drainage ditches are depicted and it is these features that are visible as earthworks. The most significant of these earthworks, which run from TG 2732 0388 to TG 2755 0386, consist of a pair of closely set banks, either side of a central channel. The fact that this turns to the south and feeds into a pond, would suggest that this is relatively major drainage feature, possibly associated with the layout of the building that preceded the current Manor House, which is only mid nineteenth century in date (NHER 9911). The majority of these boundaries appear to have been removed to create an area of parkland associated with the new nineteenth century Manor House.
S. Horlock (NMP), 04 November 2009.