HER 2827 - 13th Century and later town ditch

Archaeological (see HER 2825, 2826, 2677) and documentary evidence point to the former existence of a town ditch around Farnham. The ditch must have enclosed a fairly small area centred on the Borough and Castle Street. The earliest documentary references seen to be about 1215 and bridges mentioned in 1223 and 1224 are not subsequently referred to. Archaeological finds made it unlikely that the ditch was dug much before c.1200 and it seems to have been filled and silted up for much of its depth by c.1250. The ditch, therefore, may be interpreted as marking the boundaries of a new town established in the late 12th/early 13th century. It may be further suggested that the town out grew these limits by the mid-13th century, making the ditch redundant along with the bridges.

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Related Records

• SHHER_595
• SHHER_2677
• SHHER_2825
• SHHER_2826

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