Hello all,
I hope you'll accept some comment from a non-SMR correspondent...
I'm with those who recommend keeping boundaries wherever possible. Bear in
mind that boundary walls between adjacent properties will often tend to
survive well over time (e.g. in a terraced row) as both owners need to agree
major changes / structural alterations etc. The result is that the boundary
walls themselves may retain physical traces such as roof lines, fireplaces
etc.
Of course all of this is at risk when a large development spanning several
plots goes ahead. While we are recounting horror stories, let me mention
Barnstaple in North Devon which lost about one quarter of its medieval core
to a major town centre shopping centre in 1989/90, sweeping away twenty or
thirty burgage plots and their associated thousand years of occupation (all
too little of which colleagues at the local archaeology unit were funded to
examine). Last time I was there many of the new shops were vacant which is
rather sad all round. Maybe something which actually felt like a part of a
historic town would have been more successful.
Edmund Lee
English Heritage Data Standards (so no authority on planning matters!)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Baker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 11 June 2003 18:02
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> Subject: Re: Burgage Plots
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> These tales remind me of a fun situation when Wilkinson's
> came to Bedford in
> the mid 90s, taking over about three listed buildings-at-risk
> with their
> rear burgage plots laid out over the western limit and outer bailey of
> Bedford Castle dem. c 1224.
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