Monument record 1464/1/1 - Possible Medieval Moat

Early Medieval or later Moat (site), now destroyed, although part of the pond to the south east still survives. On the 1843 Tithe Map a moat is depicted around Home Farm.

{1} Moat (SP 687 509) lay around Home Farm, at the south east end of Caldecote hamlet, on clay at 115m above OD. The Tithe Map of 1843 shows the present farmhouse bounded on its east, south and west sides by a broad water-filled ditch, apparently part of a small rectangular moat which perhaps once encircled the building. From the south east corner of the moat a stream led to a large rectangular pond. On a slightly later map of approximately 1850 the pond is again depicted, but the north end of the west side is omitted. Apart from a shallow depression which marks the former SE corner, the moat has now been entirely destroyed though part of the pond to the south east still survives.

{2} In 1843 the farm was bounded on the east, south and west by a broad water-filled ditch, with a stream running from the south-east corner to a large rectangular pond.

{3} By 1850 the north end of the west side was lost.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.160 Site 11 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77382.

<2> 1843, Towcester Tithe Map, (unchecked) (Map). SNN12156.

<3> 1850, Northants Record Office map of Towcester c.1850, (unchecked) (Map). SNN12340.

<4> Northamptonshire SMR Collection of Aerial Photographs, NCCAP: SP6851/001 (Aerial Photograph(s)). SNN104822.

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Feb 4 2025 8:08PM