Route Wide Parish Boundary Trial Trenching Evaluation Overview and Data, 2021 (HS2 Phase One)
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1127232
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Introduction
This collection comprises spreadsheet data relating to multiple sites included within the Parish Wide Boundary Evaluation project. The individual site collections are linked from this overview collection.
Project Summary
The 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 Statement
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.
