Gooderstone Warren

Map of Location

Warren Features

Earliest documentary evidence

1370-1380 Manorial records list 348 rabbits culled [NRO]

Poaching

14 Nov 1755 John Briston junior was on warren with 14 coneys and a lurcher [NRO MC2083/1, 441X3]

Enclosure Acts

Case for Inclosure ‘this open barren land’ 1768
Warren rights set out pre-enclosure 1767
Inclosure 1769 940 acres ‘commonly called the ‘old warren’.
Papers ref Inclosure including ‘great cattle shack and coney and other rights’
Warren at Inclosure 1805
Further enclosure 15 Nov 1841 ‘760 acres of Gooderstone Warren bounded by the boundary of Cockley Cley towards the north by the boundary of Hilborough towards the east and south-east by the boundary of Foulden in part and by the public road towards the south …. towards the north-west together with the cottage or tenement used as a warrener’s house’.(
Lime Kiln Plantation Oak and 14 other species planted 1785 and 1789
[NRO HIL3/24 879X1, NRO HIL3/31/1-11 879X2,NRO HIL3/25 879X1 and HIL3/27 879X1, NRO HIL3/16/1-41 879X1, NRO HIL 1/219/1-6 873X5, NRO HIL3/344, NRO HIL1/219/1]’
‘Other documentary evidence’, ‘A lease rental of 1535 names ‘the ferme of  the warren of conies’ which was owned by Denny Abbey.
1376 6 acres of oats planted ‘in the warren to sustain the conies there’
Manor grant of 12 Feb 1451 NRO HIL1/10. 869X8
1469 arable land totaling 100 acres had been abandoned ‘to the warren
Leases 10 March 1535/6; 1550s and 1615
Conveyance of manors including Hilborough and Gooderstone 1610-11 and ‘rent of 500 conies’
Legal dispute ref rights over warren 1727
Plan of parish boundary 1803
Valuation of manor ‘including the ‘park, two mills and a warren’ late 16th c Copy Charter of Manor of 15 Aug 1612 NRO HARE 294/9 186X1
Survey in Field Book 1627
1635 Quitclaim includes request to  Sir John Hare to plough up the commons
and the warren ‘with some exceptions’
Suit Edmund Wace and James Nelthorpe 1723-33
Abstract of Title and written survey ‘according to the Old Map of 1627 in 1765 Field Book
Map of lands in Bodney and Hilborough  1815
Late 18th  plans of farms Maps Duke of Wellington’s Hilborough Estate 1830-60 [NRO BRA 369]
Map of estate 1860
OS map 1906
Warreners still selling rabbits in 1932 ref Insurance Schedule
Warren allotted under Enclosure in 1805 to Earl of Essex; purchased 1841 by Robert T Norman who then sold to Henry Caldwell in 1846

[NRO Hilborough Deposit Box T, NRO Hilborough Deposit Box T, NRO MS13354,NRO MC2083/1, NRO HIL1/12 869X8 1/13-14 869X9, NRO BRA239, NRO NAS1/1/22/7, NRO HIL2/41 882X6, NRO PD 141/42, NRO HIL3/8-10, 13, 878X9 HIL 3/11-12, 879X1, NRO HIL3/33/1/1-7 and HIL3/2/1-7 879X2, NRO MC1745, NRO HIL3/27 879X1 and one fragment of 16th c NRO MC1865/1 863X5, NRO BRA369/5 727X4, NRO HIL3/368-369 883X8, NRO HIL3/283/1-10 882X8, NRO HIL/1/219/1-6,873X5]
Warreners still selling rabbits in 1932 ref Insurance Schedule
[NRO HIL3/283/1-10 882X8.]

Lodges

Warren Farm is a flint and brick building dated 1845 in the Gothic style. Tithe Map 1840 shows the warren buildings in place and E Rose records that it shows ‘no earthworks remain’ but says ‘extensive ruins of the former warren lodge are preserved to the immediate south-west of the house’.
Conveyance of 1619 by Sir Henry Rich to Earl of Warwick and Sir Nicholas Rich of Manor of Hilborough and ‘warren with two lodges or warrenhouses and stock of conies’(and swan marks or ‘walk ? of swans’) [NRO HIL 1/37, 869X8 and NRO HIL1/18 20, 869X9. HIL 1/19, 21, 869X8]

Other documentary evidence

Papers ref foldcourse system and ‘cullet rights’ on the warrens  1723-33
[NRO HIL3/8-10 13 878X9 HIL3/11-12 879X1]

Leases

A lease rental of 1535 names ‘the ferme of  the warren of conies’ which was owned by Denny Abbey. Leases 10 March 1535/6; 1550s and 1615
[NRO Hilborough Deposit Box T]

Maps

Plan of parish boundary 1803
Map of lands in Bodney and Hilborough  1815
Late 18th  plans of farms Maps Duke of Wellington’s Hilborough Estate 1830-60 NRO BRA 369
Map of estate 1860
OS map 1906 [NRO HIL3/33/1/1-7 and HIL3/2/1-7 879X2, NRO MC1745, NRO HIL3/27 879X1 and one fragment of 16th c NRO MC1865/1 863X5, NRO BRA369/5 727X4]

Boundary Banks

Discernable but not very obvious in most cases

perimeter warren banks: single=Yes, double=Yes, triple=No, quadruple No.

Lodges

Understand Lodge was demolished at time of farm house building 1845