Monument record 626/0/1 - Site of probable medieval moat, east of Thrupp Lodge

Fragmentary remains of a moated enclosure. The moat is still partially water-filled

{1} Immediately east of Thrupp Lodge are the fragmentary remains of a moated site. It is very overgrown and badly mutilated but consists of a ditch, U-shaped in plan, partly dry and partly water-filled, up to 1.5m deep. It presumably once continued on the north-east side to form a moated enclosure. The south-east side extends south-west for some 60m and may be the remains of another enclosure, the interior of which is occupied by the present farm. This south-east side has a low, spread bank only 0.25m high outside it. The site is shown, exactly as it is today, on the Tithe Map of Norton of 1847.

{2} Identical in 1847

{3} Plan

NCCAP:SP5965/5-7

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1981, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 154/site 10 (Series). SNN77381.

<2> 1847, Norton Tithe Map (NRO T297), (unchecked) (Map). SNN14134.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1950s/1960s, Ordnance Survey Record Cards, SP56NE12 (unchecked) (Index). SNN443.

Record last edited

Feb 10 2022 8:45AM