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for a reasonable-group of .documents,-is cheaper than Xerox
copying. All the glebe terriers for the Milton Keynes area
at Aylesbury Record Office have been microfilmed.
FIELDWORK
The production of 1:500G ridge:and furrow. maps of the
parishes within Milton Keynes. is now-alMost complete. Much
of this work has been carefully cheeked-by:Jdi. Barnbrook
and T.A. Lancashire using vertical aerial:photographs from
1969, 1976 and 1977. Whenever.problems-h.ave been encountered,
-then greund level observation has usuaIlyclarified the.. .
direetion of the strips if not the actUal number. The ridge
and furrow in several areas has been cempletely deetroyed
and examination-of 1947 RAF verticala at the County Museum,
Aylesbury, may .enable several of the gaps to be filled it
.is only at Newton Longville that the historipal material is
available.to back up this work. It is.hopedLthat further
research will provide such information for.other parishes.
.General 1:25,000 distribution peps of-most. medieval'
jandecape features have been produced,for-the City.
Attention has been concentrated upon locating the exact
positions of both wind and watermills and their relationships
to the surrounding landscape. Investigations at the following
sites have all produced possible mill sites:
Stantonbury Stanton Low - SP 835 427
Dredging of the mill stream and associated earthmoving
disturbed an earthwork/platform. Three large fragments
of lava quern were discovered in association with tile
and limestone walling.
Woughton on the Green - SP 8829 3779
1 fragment of gritstone quern in association with
possible mill'leat.
Wolverton -. SP 8067 4196
In the field called 'The Grange' J.J. Sheehan repérted
in 1860 that a mill once stood in this field which
once belonged to Chicksand Abbey. 1 fragment of
gritstone quern was found.
Loughton - SP 8288 3807
The possible windmill meund has now been identified at
this grid reference. The earliest documentary reference
for a windmill in the parish is 1361.
1 small fragment of gritstone, possibly quern or glacial
eratie, was found in Windmill.Hill Field at SP 829 378.
It is possible that this site will be excavated in 1980.