Lyndhurst Park Hunting Lodge; Hatheburgh (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Lyndhurst.
In the historic county of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Modern Authority of Hampshire.
1974 county of Hampshire.
Medieval County of Hampshire.

OS Map Grid Reference: SU298081
Latitude 50.87188° Longitude -1.57763°

Lyndhurst Park Hunting Lodge; Hatheburgh has been described as a certain Palace.

There are no visible remains.

Description

In 1358 Edward III assumed control of the New Forest and immediately set about creating four hunting lodges, all of which were probably within the newly enclosed park (SU30NW6) he had created in 1354-5. These were the Park Lodge, Studley and Helmsley, and the most important at Hatheburgh. Each was of timber-frame and plaster construction, roofed with Purbeck and Cornish slates., and surrounded by a ditch. The Hatheburgh Lodge had a chapel, great gate and postern, and a long house containing the chambers and offices. Although the works were completed in 1361, a new hall and houses were built at Hatheburgh in 1365. (PastScape ref. HKW)

An O.S. suggestion that an earthwork at Amberwood, in Hyde is the C14 royal hunting lodge known as Hatheburgh is refuted by P Stamper on the grounds that it is the wrong size and that Hatheburgh is known to have been situated in Lyndhurst Park. The site is also identified with Bolderwood Lodge.

A park was attached to the manor of Lyndhurst from a very early date. In 1299 it covered an area of 500 acres, the profits from the honey gathered there amounting to 2s. per annum. In 1313 mention is made of 'the close of Queen Margaret at Lyndhurst.' Later in the century the Sheriff of Southampton was ordered to provide the necessary transport for the work of inclosing the king's park at Lyndhurst. In 1358 John de Beauchamp was charged to sell sufficient timber from the park of Lyndhurst to defray the expense of making four lodges and ridings in the forest. In 1387 and again in 1428 payments were made for the fencing and repairing of the palings of the king's park at Lyndhurst. (VCH)

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 1393743.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 19922 (park); 19840 (Boldrewood).

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- New Forest Explorers' Guide - The Park Pale and Lyndhurst Old Park (on park only)
Books
- Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol. 2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p. 984-6
  Page, Wm (ed), 1911, VCH Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Vol. 4 p. 630-634 online transcription
Periodical Articles
- Smith, N., 1999, 'The Earthwork Remains of Enclosure in the New Forest' Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society Vol. 54 p. 23-27
  Wrey, E.C., 1960, 'A Note on the New Forest from the Archaeological Angle' Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society Vol. 21 p. 156-9
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1908, Calendar of Close Rolls Edward III (1354-60) Vol. 10 p. 476 view online copy (requires subscription but searchable) alternative online copy (long download time)
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Stamper, P.A., 1983, Medieval Hampshire - studies in landscape history (University of Southampton: PhD Thesis)
  A Plan of His Majesty's Forest, called the New Forest, in the County of Southampton. Laid down from surveys undertaken by Thos. Richardson, Wm. King and ABm. and Wm. Driver. By order of the Commissioners of the Land Revenue, appointed by Act of Parliament passed in the 26th year of King George IIId. Engraved and published by order of the said Commissioners, by William Faden, Geographer to the King, MDCCLXXXIX online copy

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