MSO11350 - Medieval and post-medieval farmstead at Holt (Monument)

Summary

A deserted farm is recorded at this location, shown on the 1841 tithe map. A single building and some earthworks were seen to remain in 1983.

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Type and Period (2)

Protected Status

  • None recorded

Full Description

1327 Lay subsidy lists Johanne de Holte. [1] 1841 tithe map shows a farm here with more extensive buildings. [2] John of Holt listed as one of the Woodwards in c. 1270 while Walter Cumin of Holte is listed in the pleas of vert of 1270. [3] Single building and vague earthworks remain. [4] The remains at Holt comprise a single barn at SS 9235 4480, with a date stone "JH 1861". On its eastern side is a walled yard. The site of the farm itself lies immediately to the east at SS 9239 4481, where a very pronounced terrace scarp (now planted with pine trees) marks the upper edge of a building platform. Further walls now forming field boundaries are visible to the north, and these may formerly have delimited the yard or garden. [5] Some 80 metres to the southeast at SS 9246 4477 is an ash house, shown on the most recent (to 2003) Edition Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping (sheet SS 9244). [6]

Sources/Archives (6)

  • <1> Monograph: Dickenson, F.H.. 1889. Kirby's Quest for Somerset. Somerset Record Society. Series 3. 246.
  • <2> Map: Collard Cox, W.. 1841. Luccombe Tithe Map and Apportionment.
  • <3> Monograph: MacDermot, E T. 1911. A History of Exmoor Forest. 82, 86.
  • <4> Article in serial: Aston, M. 1983. Deserted Farms on Exmoor and the Lay subsidy of 1327 in West Somerset. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Society. 127. 94.
  • <5> Unpublished document: Wilson-North, R.. Field Investigators Comments. RCHME Field Investigation, 2 July 1997.
  • <6> Unassigned: Richardson, Isabel, National Trust.

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Other Statuses/References

  • Coastal Risk 2014: Flood Zone 2 fluvial
  • Coastal Risk 2014: Flood Zone 3 fluvial
  • Coastal Risk 2016: Flood Zone 2 fluvial
  • Coastal Risk 2016: Flood Zone 3 fluvial
  • Exmoor National Park HER Number (now deleted): MSO7408
  • Local List Status (Unassessed)
  • National Monuments Record reference: SS 94 SW32
  • National Park: Exmoor National Park
  • Pastscape HOBID (was Monarch UID): 37034
  • Somerset SMR PRN: 33706

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred SS 9237 4483 (178m by 157m) (Historic mapping)
Map sheet SS94SW
Civil Parish LUCCOMBE, WEST SOMERSET, SOMERSET

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Record last edited

May 30 2018 2:58PM

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