NAME PARISH Burghclere HUNDRED Evingar DISTRICT and Deane NGR SU 469610 GEOLOGY Plateau gravel

SITE CONTEXT is situated at around 130m OD on gently undulating ground near the foot of the chalk escarpmant to the S. The other areas of settlement lie on undulating land to the N of the older centre.

PLAN TYPE & DESCRIPTION Church/Manor at Old Burghclere; a DMV. Scattered farms and groups of cottages to the N.

Old Burghclere is where the church, manor house and manor farm stand with the earthwork remains of the deserted settlement.

To the N the settlement pattern is one of dispersal with many farms and small groups of cottages scattered over the parish.

AREAS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE Old Burghclere, with the remains of the deserted part of the settlement is an AHAP. The limit of the earthworks have not been defined in the field and so the limit of the AHAP is an estimation of their likely extent. In the event of there being a threat to the earthworks, a survey to determine the full extent of the settlement remains will need to be undertaken.

The settlement pattern to the N of Old Burghclere is a difficult one on which to define areas of archaeological potential. The second set of maps shows an area of farms and cottages and attempts to highlight the types of areas or features that are of archaeological potential. The short row of cottages includes one of at least C17 date and Coopers Farm is of a similar date. These areas are regarded as being AAPs. It is recognised that further work is required at a much more detailed level thatn the present survey to deal with the archaeological potential of dispersed areas of settlement.

The third set of maps shows one of the principal areas of modern settlement where the church is sited. No area of archaeological potential has been designated.

CHURCH & CHURCHYARD All Saints at Old Burhgclere 2m S of the new church. N door early Norman. S door slightly later. C13 chancel and W door. N transept c. 1300.

BUILDINGS (Listed) Fmhse C17 C18 and C19 II Hse Adbury Late C18 II Stables 30 yds N Adbury Hse Early C19 II Adbury Fmhse C16 C17 C18 mid C19 Med hall house with cross wing II Barns 20 yds E Mid C19 II Estate Cottages at Adbury Fm Mid C19 II Parish Room Burghclere 1890 II Church of the Ascension 1838 II The Malt House C18 II Earlstone Fmhse Earlstone Common Early C16 late C17 and early C19 II Barn 20 yds N and cartshed 40 yds N C18 II Palmers Hill Fmhse Early C19 II Sandham Memorial Chapel Harts Lane 1926 I Laburnam Cottage C17 C18 II Coopers Fmhse C17 Early to mid C19 II Barn (C18) and granary (Early C19) 20 yds NE and N II Budds Fmhse C18 and early C19 II Barn 35 m S C18 II Church of All Saints Old Burghclere I Manor House Mid C14 II* The Mews Early C19 II Former stable to Manor Hse C17 and C19 II Manor Fmhse C18 and C19 II Barn 40m SW C17 II Wergs Fmhse C18 early C19 II Barn 20 yds SE (C17) Barn S of first barn (C17) small barn 60 yds S (C18) display shed (Early C19) stable 50 yds SW of House (Early C19) granary 20 yds SW (Late C18) Lodge S building at Court Mid C19 II Oxdrove Hse Ox Drove C18 C20 II Cranford Cottage C17 and C18 II 1 and 2 Thatched Cottages Tothill C18 II Norman Fmhse Well St Early C19 II Cartshed and barn 50 yds S Early C19 II Mole Fmhse C17 and C20 II Duncroft Fmhse C17 C18 C19 II Dodds Fmhse C18 II Duncroft Cottages C17 mid C19 II Cherrycot Lodge Winchester Rd Early C19 II Cottage C15 early C19 II Elm Barm Fmhse C17 C18 and Early C19 II Forge Hse and Forge Early C19 II The Carnarvon Arms Early C19 II Whitway House Early C19 II

SMR DATA 12 46986098 Med ridge and furrow 56 46125806 IA pit and pottery 57 46285806 BA pit and pottery 58 46285806 Ridge and furrow 61 45615893 Inhumation undated 62 45615893 IA pit 64 48005990 Earthworks Unclassified 65 48005990 Medieval manor house 75 45505890 Post-med clay pipe fragments 77 45905990 Roman coin ADDITIONAL SITES/FEATURES No new sites

CARTOGRAPHIC SOURCES OS 1:2500 SU 4457-4557, 4657-4757, 4658-4758, 4659-4759, 4660-4760, 4661-4761, Tithe map 21M65/F7/02/2 (1835)

PRIMARY HISTORIC SOURCES Domesday William son of Baderon holds Clere. Saxi held it from King Edward. Then it answered for 4 hides; now for 3 hides and 2.5 virgates; Land for 7 l. In lordship 2 pl; 14 villagers and 16 smallholders with 5 pl. 1 slave; 3 mills at 7s 6d; meadow, 7 acres. Value brfore 1066, later and now £7 however, it pays £10.

This reference has been identified as the manor of Earlstone in Burghclere.

Subsidy Rolls 1334 2. 6. 2 1524 7. 14. 2 (38 taxpayers)

Manorial Documents HCRO have Court Rolls and other records of the manor of C16 and C17 date.

Hearth Tax 1665 158 hearths chargeable (58 houses) 24 hearhts not chargeable (23 houses) Total 81 houses

PLACE NAME 749 cleran Uncertain.

PHOTOGRAPHS

OTHER PROJECT ARCHIVE ELEMENTS 749 Burgclere mentioned in a grant of land to the church at Winchester.

Mentioned in charters of 943 and 955x958 (refs. 487 and 1491 in Sawyer, 1968, p187 and 417).

1218 Grant of a weekly market at 'Novo Burgo de Clere'.

1233 The common fields included Stock (67.5 a), Surlande (31.5a), Harebert and Leylie (242a) and Lendecumbe (151a). There was also 10 acres of meadow dispersed throughout the manor (VCH Vol IV p 277).

Fieldwalking in the immediate vicinity of the village of Old Burghclere has produced late Saxon and medieval pot. Footings were observed during recent road widening (MSRG Annual Reprt 27, 1979).

During the Black Death there was serious depopulation when 35 tenent families died out.