The Gatehouse website record for Bolderwood Hunting Lodge

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Boldrewood; Harborough; Bolder Lodge; Hatheburgh; Hatherburgh

In the civil parish of Minstead. In the historic county of Hampshire (Modern Authority of Hampshire, 1974 county of Hampshire).

Assumed site of a royal hunting lodge, a typical rectangular earthwork. A hunting lodge originally known as Harborough and first mentioned in 1330. It was ordered to be built in 1358 of timber frame and plaster surrounded by a ditch and roofed with Purbeck and Cornish slate. It was said to have a great gate and postern, a great chamber for the king, a chapel and a long house for chambers of office, including a kitchen, larder, granary and stables. It was extended between 1362 and 1365. The site lies south of the later Bolderwood Lodge. Has been identified as Hatheburgh (qv)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU24400794

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 222340
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 19840 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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