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Whiddon Park warren
Grid ref: SX 7266 8926
On walking routes: A Walk to the Hydro Turbine, Castle Drogo, Piddledown Common Walk, Castle Drogo, Teign Gorge Classic Circuit, Castle Drogo, Two Moors Way
Main image: Photo: Derek Harper, Wikimedia Commons
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1021398) describes at least eight pillow mounds that together make a warren in Whiddon Park. The scheduling falls into four areas. The mounds are rectangular or circular with the ditches the material was dug from. The rectangular ones are 6.7 to 14 metres long, averaging 10.3, and 0.7 to 0.9 metres high. The circular one, at SX 72678922, is 6.38 metres across and 0.6 metres high. The warren lies inside a deer park, Whiddon Park, which was made in the mid-16th century and stayed in use until the end of the 19th. It lies in the parish of Moretonhampstead, about 1.5 km east of Sandy Park.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1021398, which cites the National Trust Sites and Monuments Record for Castle Drogo (1985).
- Period: Medieval
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1021398)
- Grid reference: SX 7266 8926 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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