MMO592 - Post-medieval water meadow at Higher Week Farm (Monument)

A post medieval water meadow system at Higher Week Farm noted from aerial photographs of 1947. [1,2] The water meadow described above is fairly extensive, lying to either side of Week Lane and stretching from Week Cottages to Orchard Cottages. The aerial photographs suggest that there may be two phases of drainage features present, each on slightly different alignments to each other. [3-5] The features may have actually related to two farmsteads, Higher Week and Lower Wick, the latter of which is shown on the Tithe Map to the west of Week Cottages. [6] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [7]