Newent Town Defences

Has been described as a Questionable Urban Defence

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

NameNewent Town Defences
Alternative Names
Historic CountryGloucestershire
Modern AuthorityGloucestershire
1974 AuthorityGloucestershire
Civil ParishNewent

'Earthworks along the E side of the back lane (marked 'Old Maid's Walk' on OS 1:10000 1974) to the E side of Lewall Street could be associated with town defences. The street names 'Lewall Street' and 'Burybar' could indicate the presence of defences and a town gate respectively. There are no recorded explicit documentary references to defences'. (PastScape ref. Leech)

Gatehouse Comments

Lewall Street, if it refers to a wall, probably refers to a precinct wall of the priory. The earthworks are undated and not of a defensive form. Burybar, however, is likely to refer to a gate into the town. This is likely to have been nothing more than a large 'farm' gate designed to stop stock straying and acting as a toll bar rather than anything defensive.

- Philip Davis

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Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSO721259
Latitude51.9315414428711
Longitude-2.40659999847412
Eastings372140
Northings225970
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Books

  • Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p. 257
  • Leech, Roger, 1981, Historic towns in Gloucestershire: archaeology and planning (Committee for Rescue Archaeology in Avon, Gloucestershire and Somerset surveys 3) p. 58

Journals

  • Creighton, Oliver, 2006, ''Castles of Communities': Medieval Town Defences in England; Wales and Gascony' Château Gaillard Vol. 22 p. 75-86