Monument record 1681/3/2 - Brigstock Manor House: Moat

Rectangular moat surrounding Brigstock Manor. Three sides of the moat are depicted on a map of 1725. Now a sunken garden, only slight traces of the ditch survive.

{1} The rectangular moat enclosing the manor house, depicted on three sides on the 1725 map, has since been converted to sunken garden. This may have its origins in a moated enclosure for the medieval royal manor and hunting lodge. Alternatively it might represent an enclosure constructed when a new house was built, probably by the Montagu family when they leased the manor from the crown in 1449.

{4} Moat around Brigstock Manor House. Only slight traces of the surrounding ditch, now a sunken garden, remain. The central island was rectangular, 50m x 30m, orientated north east - south west, and apparently completely surrounded by a ditch 7m wide; it is depicted on a map of 1725 as having no south west side.

<1> Foard G, 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Brigstock (Medieval + Post Medieval), (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN100441.

<2> 1725, Brigstock Survey, (unchecked) (Map). SNN100446.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP98NW4 (unchecked) (Index). SNN443.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, (unchecked) (Series). SNN77379.

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Jun 28 2022 9:11AM