Level 1 earthwork survey by RCHME and Essex Gardens Trust at the earthwork remains of Woodham Walter Hall, 1999 - EEX61939

NRHE data transfer: In late March 1999, a team from RCHME's Cambridge field office carried out a Level 1 survey of the well-preserved garden remains and ruined manor house at Woodham Walter, Essex. The site had been surveyed at 1:1000 scale to Level 3 standard by RCHME in the winter of 1987-8 (EEX53476). The Level 1 survey was carried out as part of a one-day training course organised for Essex Gardens Trust. The aims of the course were threefold 1) to illustrate the potential of field survey for understanding gardens for which there is little or no documentary evidence 2) to stress the importance of studying the relationship of the house to the buildings 3) to acquaint the members of the Trust with various techniques which they might use to carry out their own recording. Although no detailed survey of the earthworks was carried out, a detailed inspection of the building revealed points missed by the earlier RCHME survey. The Monarch record was revised to include additional monuments revealed through documentary research by Mrs Pat Ryan of Essex Gardens Trust.