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Burgage plots (31) - long, narrow town plots were laid out on either side of the High Street and Park Street, their slightly curved shape suggesting that they were laid out directly on the existing pattern of medieval field strips. Many of the buildings along these streets still have these typical burgage plots.
Traces of field boundaries to the north and south of the High Street have tentatively been identified as the possible extent of the planned town area, since the length (about 100m) coincides with similar burgage lengths in other small market towns in South Gloucestershire, such as Thornbury and Chipping Sodbury. Burgage plots cannot be identified to the north and south of Park street, and the strip fields surviving in this area are more indicative of medieval open field strip farming.

The road to Starveall, where according to legend witches were once burned, overlooks Upton Coombe (32).
The Coombes (or Combes), characteristic features of the Cotswold scarp, are short, dry valleys running into the hillside. They are thought to have developed as a result of erosion in times of higher rainfall or by snow-melt during colder periods.
At Hawkesbury several combes, some wooded, run into the steep Kilcott valley; part arable and part pasture they were shared between the tithings of Hillesley, Kilcott and Upton.
Properties in Upton included rights of pasture in Upton’s Combe but the number of animals was very specific:- “common of pasture for three rudder beasts (= oxen) in the combe in Upton” (1611), “the pasturing of one cow or heifer in Upton’s Combe... at the customary time” (1616), “two cow pastures in the Combs every second year” (1725).

The Big House (33), previously known as Upton House, is rather older than its Georgian facade suggests. Once owned by Sir Matthew Hale who became Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in 1671, the building, which had a private chapel, was substantially remodelled in the 1770s. During the 1840s the property was used as the Poor House.

The Jubilee Methodist Chapel (34) on Back Street was built in 1860. It appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1882 as the Primitive Methodist Chapel.
The chapel seats 140 people, and there are school rooms to the rear. The front porch entrance was added later: the date stone 1902 suggests that it was probably added in that year.

The Congregational Chapel (35) was built in 1844 on the south side of Park Street. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1882 as an Independent Chapel and later became known as the Bethesda United Reform Church. A small graveyard was attached to the chapel with 12 memorials identified.

Park Street (36), leading in the direction of Badminton Park contains a number of old properties, amongst which is the Malt House, one of a number of domestic malthouses which existed in the village at one time.

Upton Pound (37), a walled enclosure, once stood to the east of the plain. Maintained by the manor, the pound held stray animals, for which a fine was payable for retrieval.

Maypole Farm (38) was ‘The Maypole Inn’ in 1630. Of the maypole itself, which once stood on the plain, no trace now remains, but it is described in William Hone’s ‘Every-day Book’ of 1827.