Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fishponds at Esp Hill
Holt, Wrexham, Wales
A scheduled monument in Holt, Wrexham, recorded as Fishpond (Medieval).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Fishpond
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 24 October 1979
- Community
- Holt
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.07862, -2.89034
- SAM number
- DE224
- Cadw record number
- 2336
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1861 · 73. Market Drayton. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 122 Nantwich (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of a fishpond, used for the rearing, breeding, sorting and storing of fish, dating to the medieval or post-medieval period. Two large earthwork banks upto 1.5m high run north-south with smaller divisions at right angles. Recent drainage ditches cut across part of the site suggest that the clay linings of the ponds are intact.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval or post-medieval maritime agricultural practices. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Strawberry Pickers' Barracks at Bellis' FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- 2 Frog LaneDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Wages Office at Bellis' FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Pate GateDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.