Friday 21 June 2013

Forthcoming events.....

Don't forget our Deer Parks talk is being given by Nigel Neil on Thursday 25th June at 7.30pm in Chipping Village Hall - just turn up for a fascinating insight to medieval manors, landownership patterns and stories of some of the great characters of the area.

We also have plans to run a stall at Chipping Show on Saturday 24th August where you can have a go at place name bingo or make a deer sculpture.....and then on Tuesday 10th September we will be running a trip to Lancashire Archives in Preston to see first hand some of the documents used in the research work and to unveil some of the mysteries of archive research - including reading old fashioned handwriting, like this!

1559 Survey of the Woods, TNA DL 43/17/5 reproduced by kind permission of the Chancellor and
Council of the Duchy of Lancashire and the National Archive - photo by Dr Bill Shannon

Friday 14 June 2013

Survey drawings

Becca from English Heritage has kindly produced the drawings from the very wet survey notes we made back in April when we surveyed a length of the pale near to Windy Hills in Leagram Park.


The aerial photo clearly shows our section of ditch and bank: the pale
and these are the results of our surveying