MDE20487 - Higher Twitchen Ball Farmstead, Twitchen (Monument)

Building remains associated with small enclosures and trackways were noted on aerial photographs. Site of farm buildings or a farm site itself. [1,2] Higher Twitchen Ball is marked on the six inch 1905 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey map. [3] The deserted farmstead of Higher Twitchen Ball, Twitchen consists of a rectangular range measuring 20.1m. It has been partly robbed for stone and has been damaged by the insertion of animal feeders. It is divided into a number of compartments with the domestic area at the west end. The settlement is shown as inhabited on the first and second edition Ordnance Survey maps of 1891 and 1904, and is recorded on the 1911 census, suggesting it was abandoned after 1911. [4-9] This record was enhanced as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment to Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record data transfer project. [10]