CgMs Consulting Ltd commissioned Albion Archaeology to undertake a programme of earthwork survey and archaeological evaluation in order to discharge a pre-commencement condition, attached to outline planning permissionfor a residential development at Golf Lane, Whitnash. The field contains ridge and furrow earthworks; two contrasting alignments follow the slope of the land. The nature of the earthworks indicates that the field has been grassland in modern times, with no evidence of recent ploughing. The evaluation was undertaken in mid-December 2013, commencing with the earthwork survey, followed by the trial trenching. During the survey a boundary marker for the Great Western Railway, dated 1880, was identified at the eastern margin of the site. This previously unrecorded heritage asset incorporates a segment of reused early railway line, part of a 'Baulk road' relating to the early development of the railway. The trial trenching revealed considerable variation in the thickness of the old ploughsoil across the site. No archaeological features were identified, even though a number of the trenches were targeted on geophysical anomalies, which were judged to be possible archaeological features in the survey report.