Site of 19th century railway cottages, Boreham Feeder Station (EHER 83262)

Now destroyed. A terrace of three railway cottages depicted on historic OS mapping and demolished in the 1950s. Trial trenching in 2016 recorded demolition material.

A terrace of three cottages are depicted on historic OS maps and probably built in association with the railway. <1> June 2016. Trial trenching. Trench 4 was excavated across the location of the Victorian railway cottages shown on late editions of the OS map, however very little of the cottage structure appears to have survived below the ground surface, having been demolished above ground in the 1950s. The extensive spread seen in Trench 4 could represent demolition material backfilling the scoured hollow where the building once stood. The evaluation recorded pits below the deposit which may relate to domestic occupation in this area. Immediately to the north of the building lay four parallel bedding trenches which are thought to be part of the garden plot and represent the remains of the vegetable garden. <2>