Arthur Doubleday (Editors), Victoria County History, Bedfordshire, Vol. Nearest banks quarter mile west of large pond on west of Heath and Reach Road. North west of Sandy Lane, in fields south west of Heath and Reach. No trace remains, except name of field - "Craddocks". Resembled Maiden Bower, but completely levelled in 1798 enclosures. SBD10781.Ī destroyed circular camp was formerly on the Heath near Leighton Buzzard. Smith, 1904, Dunstable: Its History and Surroundings, pp. There was once a large circular camp on the Heath north of Leighton Buzzard, but it was destroyed when the Heath was enclosed. Smith, 1894, Man, The Primeval Savage, p. Near Leighton Buzzard, on the heath in an enclosure, nearly circular, containing several fields surounded by a ditch, which in many parts is deep, and has a good deal the appearance of having been a camp. Daniel & Samuel Lysons, 1806, Magna Britannia, p. half mile from Leighton Buzzard as Roman, but its confirmation refutes the statement. Royal Archaeological Institute, Archaeological Journal, Vol. "About half a mile from this place are the remains of a Roman camp." John Britton & Edward Wedlake Brayley, 1801, The Beauties of England and Wales, Volume 1, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, p. HEATH AND REACH, CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE, BEDFORDSHIRE However, following the reorganisation of boundaries at and after Enclosure in 1841, ensuing agriculture and the incorporation of the site into a golf course in the 20th century most of the original boundary and its earthworks have now been destroyed although traces of the bank and ditch on its north western edge were visible in the early 1980's within the golf course, the ditch being utilised as a bunker. Much later this was subdivided internally, as apparent on the Enclosure Map. The earliest known references to the name Craddocks date from 1393//7: it is an unusual name for Bedfordshire - derived from Caradog? The site's origins are likely to have been as a single ditch and bank earthwork, probably of Iron Age date, enclosing a large hilltop area. The Enclosure Map of 1841 for Heath and Reach shows a large roughly oval area subdivided into small closes, all called Craddocks, surrounded by open heathland to the north, west and south and bounded by a substantial holloway to the east called Craddocks Lane. POSSIBLE IRON AGE HILLFORT, Craddocks CampĪntiquarian references dating back to 1724 describe a camp about a mile and a half north of Leighton Buzzard and variously dated as Roman or British. If you have any comments or new information about this record, please email us.
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