This collection comprises vector and spreadsheet data from Trial Trenching Evaluation work at the Wendover Parish Boundary, Buckinghamshire during the wider Route Wide Parish Boundary Evaluation project. The work was undertaken by Headland Archaeology Ltd on behalf of High Speed Two Ltd in 2021.

The route wide parish boundary evaluation aimed to investigate the origins, development and use of parish boundaries and important hedgerows within three counties along the HS2 Central scheme, through the excavation of 11 trenches across nine parish boundaries. A total of nine locations were determined as a representative sample of parish boundaries along the route suitable for investigating the development and use of parish boundaries.

Re-use Value:

The evaluation works have demonstrated that the further investigation of boundaries formed from natural watercourses or man-made boundary ditches used as modern drainage features is unlikely to generate any additional information of interest. The sampling exercises undertaken at the other sites – where the boundary appears to have been defined solely by land ownership boundaries, or by a now backfilled ditch – have the potential to contribute to the objectives of the work, but no further sampling of the features is recommended.