Overview
Field system on Codford Down is recorded as a Scheduled monument in Wiltshire. The official title identifies field system at this exact place.
Who made it and when
Historic England records Field system on Codford Down as a Scheduled monument. The saved title does not give a secure date or name every maker or resident, so neither is invented.
How it was made and used
The safest reading of the official title is a place of living, farming or work recorded in the protected landscape. The saved record does not name every person who made, used or changed it, so those names are left open.
What was found
The official record fixes the place and calls it Scheduled monument. It does not provide a full list of finds or a current condition report, so visible and buried remains are not guessed.
What remains
The official record fixes the place and calls it Scheduled monument. It does not provide a full list of finds or a current condition report, so visible and buried remains are not guessed.
Why it mattered
Field system on Codford Down matters because the national list fixes field system in this exact local landscape. Its protected record preserves evidence of how people lived, worked, crossed, made things or shaped the land without borrowing a story from another place.
History checked 16 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Milestonebuilding0.3 miles
- Two saucer barrows 250m west of John's Plantingmonument0.5 miles
- Upton Great Barrow: a bell barrow in East Barrow Beltmonument0.7 miles
- Knook Horse Hillmountain0.7 miles
- Wraxworthy Plantationforest0.7 miles
- West Down Spinneyforest0.8 miles
- Part of a prehistoric field system on Codford Downmonument0.8 miles
- Round barrow cemetery to the south of Codford Downmonument0.8 miles
- Milestone near Chitternemonument0.8 miles
- Knook Castle hill fortcastle0.9 miles
- Bowl Barrow, part of the round barrow cemetery south of Codford Downmonument0.9 miles
- Knook Castle hillfort and associated prehistoric and Romano-British landscapecastle1.1 miles
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