Sturston Warren

Map of Location

Warren Features

Earliest documentary evidence
1198 (in Latin) [M521554 ]

Other documentary evidence
1546 Manor (and probably warren) purchased by Nicholas Bacon from Richard Wingfield
Date ? Sturston Hall (and warren ?) conveyed to Nicholas Bedingfeld from John Jermyn
1729 Sold to William Ballock
1770s Sold to Lord Walsingham

Estate Maps and Plans 1600-1899
[Deeds 1500-1899 NRO WLSXXVII/1-24 and 1700-1899 WLS/XXIX/1-22 and WLS/XXX/1-4, NRO WLS/LXI1-34]

Leases
1780 Paled Close within warren – pictured on an 1820 Lease stating 30 acres of warren could be ploughed and used for arable at any one time [WLS LX/1 MS 21505/1]

Rabbit Feeding
1780 Paled Close within warren – pictured on an 1820 Lease stating 30 acres of warren could be ploughed and used for arable at any one time [WLS LX/1 MS 21505/1]

Boundary Banks
Earliest documented date: 1781 [WLS XXIX/6 416×6]

Lodges
1797 – Faden’s Map

Numbers Culled
1825 2,101 dozen at 13 to the dozen – but includes Stanford Warren as reported [WLS XVIII/3 410×7]

Enclosure Acts
Statement of land in the old warren
[NRO WLS/LXVIII/15 /478X9]

Maps
Estate Maps and Plans 1600-1899 [NRO WLS/LXI1-34]’

Boundary Banks
Within STANTA Battle Area
TL 8745 9188 The boundary consisted of a multiple banked feature, usually two or four parallel banks, and is shown as a trackway on some early maps. Mostly to the west and within Sturston are a series of rectangular and rectilinear banked enclosures, which are thought to be stock enclosures on uneven ground, although they are small enough to be arable fields.

TL 8836 9341 The boundary here is a multiple banked feature, usually with four banks, and this is also thought to be the site of the southeastern boundary of Sturston Warren (NHER 37051).

TL 8886 9406 northeastern boundary shown on a map from 1797.

Trapping Banks
Multiple banks recorded by RIS at TL8634 9483 NHE37057; TL8836 9341 NHER37050

Internal Enclosures
RIS site 121.
Straddling the northern boundary of the former Sturston Warren a complex of enclosure boundaries to the north and west of Pole Plantation which has banks on all but its south side. This site extends from Site 120 (NHER 37054) in the east, to Site 112 (NHER 37602) in the west with many features still shown on the County Series maps. (The northern boundary of Sturston Warren in 1771 was probably that shown extending from Turner’s Stile Plantation westwards to Site 111 (NHER 37048). In 1781 it appears further north, probably that extending eastwards from Widow’s Hill Plantation towards the northern end of Eagletower Plantation. Both Faden (S1) and the Orndance Survey 1st Editions (S2, S3) show the boundary further north

Lodges
Not visited (STANTA battle area)