A scheme of archaeological monitoring and recording was undertaken on land at Coghill Court, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, as a condition of planning consent for a residential development. There is significant evidence for Roman and medieval activity in Southwell, mostly centred around Southwell Minster, to the northeast of the site. An earlier programme of trial trenching was undertaken on the site and exposed a series of north–south aligned ditches, containing small quantities of medieval pottery, animal bone and hammerscale, as well as a brick wall relating to an early 20th century building. The ditches were sealed by a buried soil layer and a series of levelling deposits. Historic mapping suggested the site lies in an area of potential medieval burgage plots dividing land between Westgate to the north and Potwell Dyke to the south. As final mitigation for the scheme, a programme of monitoring and recording was requested. The archaeological monitoring identified a further north–south aligned ditch that corresponded with the location of a former boundary seen on historic mapping, as well as the continuation of linear ditches uncovered during the evaluation trenching. A large medieval boundary ditch with an associated bank along its eastern edge was revealed during the stripping for the access road. The alignment of the ditch, north-northwest to south-southeast, was different to the other ditches on site, north to south, and dating evidence from the feature was slightly earlier; these factors may suggest that the ditch represents an earlier phase of land division.