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Alderton Farm visible on 1st Ed OS map and tithe map. The farmhouse and a range of buildings are listed with the farmstead dating from the 15th century and one range of buildings dating from the 17th century. There are two linear ranges of buildings at a slight angle to each other. The house is set apart. The farmstead is set to the south of a public road alongside St Bartholomews Church.

Group of three (+) buildings named Haverhill Chapel on Hodskinson's 1783 map.

Indicative area of the historic settlement core of Alderton

Second World War defences and barbed wire obstructions are visible on aerial photographs at Alderton. The defences include at least two pillboxes, type 22s located within the eastern part of the site. Another two possible emplacements or structures were potentially located within this area, although these are less clear on the aerial photographs. An earthen covered gun emplacement was also located along the roadside to the west. These defences and the northern part of Alderton and ‘The Old Rectory’ are surrounded by barbed wire obstructions in 1943. These defences are replaced by the Diver Batteries constructed during the later phases of the war (ADT 085 & ADT 086).

The former earthworks and soilmarks of boundaries and possible former building platforms and/or mounds of probable post medieval date are on visible on aerial photographs adjacent to Alderton Hall (ADT 002). These features are likely to post medieval date and relate to landscape features and/or boundaries associated with Alderton Hall, but it is feasible that some may be contemporary with the earlier medieval moated site.

Rectangular ditched enclosure of unknown date, Alderton parish

The former site of a Second World War Diver Strip Battery, associated camp and defences, is visible on aerial photographs at Alderton. Another two Diver Batteries are located to the south (ADT 085, ADT 086). The site consists of the main strip of four gun emplacements and the associated operational and accommodation buildings located to the west and north of the guns. Recent photography and mapping would suggest that no above ground components of this site are likely to remain, however some minor structures could feasibly survive along the eastern edge of the site.

The cropmarks of an enclosure and/or farmstead of unknown date are visible on aerial photographs to the immediate west of Alderton. Morphologically the cropmarks could indicate a site of later prehistoric or Roman date or equally one of Saxon to medieval date. The cropmarks are located to the south of medieval finds (ADT 011), although this is unsurprisingly given the close proximity of the moated site of Alderton Hall (ADT 002) and the village itself.

Four sub-circular pit-like features are visible on aerial photographs land to the east of Cedar Farm, Alderton. They are thought to be remnants of World War Two gun emplacements, and may relate to a former Heavy Anti-Aircraft battery or field artillery position.