More information : (SP 806156) Village (NR) (site of) (NAT) (1) The deserted village of Quarrendon I at SP 806156 has a main street marked by a holloway which runs diagonally across the site, with a network of streets and an irregular pattern of crofts. Probably depopulated before 1485. It is connected to Quarrendon II (see SP 71 NE 12) by a holloway. (2-4) SP 8055 1575. A nucleated desertion, the pattern of streets and crofts radiating from a centralised pond and mill. The extant earthworks are extensive and occupy some 25.0 acres of permanent pasture; the hollows" of the streets achieve a maximum depth of 1.7m and the crofts are of various sizes and shapes; no steadings were found; this can be attributed to three causes, the use of the streets as early droves and later as passage for heavy agricultural equipment; and the close proximity of the adjacent Civil War Battery (SP 81 NW 8) (and its garrison soldiery) which actually backs on to the village at its SE position. Surveyed on 1:2500 AM. The 'hollow-way' connecting this site to Quarrendon II (SP 71 NE 12) can no longer be interpreted. (5)
A rapid examination of air photography (6a) shows the village earthworks extant in 1985. (6)
Following RCHME level 3 survey in 1989-90, now understood to be medieval settlement remains in the form of a hamlet based on a green, and part of a dispersed settlement pattern in the parish. (7) |