Site Event/Activity record ECH3597 - The Grange, Pulford: Archaeological Evaluation 1993

Archaeological evaluation, comprising a desk-based assessment and three trial trenches, undertaken in February 1992 in advance of a housing development on land adjoining the Grange, Wrexham Road, Pulford. The site lies immediately to the west of Wrexham Road, with the the medieval church (St. Mary's Church) and the Castle of Pulford immediately to the east of the road. The results of the evaluation indicate that the site appears to have been used for agriculatural purposes since the Middle Ages if not earlier, with ridge and furrow earthworks evident. It would seem, perhaps surprisingly, that the church and castle did not attract large-scale medieval habitation. One of the trial trenches just to the south of Doddleston Lane recorded a sill beam trench of a building which has been demolished between 1777 and 1831. So domestic settlement here seems to have been relatively late, seemingly not occurring before the closing years of the seventeenth century, and also it appears to have been short-lived, disappearing by the early years of the nineteenth century. (1)