The Gatehouse website record for Queen Bower Hunting Lodge, Brockenhurst

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

C14 hunting lodge situated on a plateau within Queen Bower in the New Forest. The location of the lodge is indicated by earthwork banks, an external ditch and a scarp which enclose a rectangular platform measuring 55m north west to south east and 45m north east to south west. The banks are a maximum of 7m in width, up to 1m in height and define the south western, north western and north eastern sides of the platform. The south eastern edge is defined by a slight scarp. A document dated to 1428 mentions several royal lodges in the New Forest by name, including one at Queneboure, which is a clear reference to this monument. The document remarks that 'It appears that the said lodges are ruinous, and would have fallen to the ground, but for the expenditure done on them by Thomas earl of Salisbury and count of Perche, keeper of the said forest, out of his own goods'. The result was the issue of a Royal Commission to cut and sell sufficient timber to provide the necessary finance for the repair of the lodges. Contemporary sources record that between 1432 and 1440 a further 200 pounds was spent on the lodges by Richard Clyvedon, who in July 1435 was appointed clerk and surveyor of the king's works in the New Forest.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU287044

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 222440
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 20675 '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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