Queen Bower Hunting Lodge, Brockenhurst

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Queneboure

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.

This site has been described as a;
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Earthworks remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU287044

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 222440

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 20675

• Web site links
  • http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/entries/v05p046e07.html
• Books
  • Anderson, C.D.J., 2004, The Deer Parks of Hampshire: an Archaeological Survey p12
    Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p986
• Journal Articles
  • Various, 1999, Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society p26