Moated Site 500m SE of 'Horse and Jockey', Bentley
Description of this historic site
The site of a Medieval moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building. Visible on aerial photos, located 500m south east of the Horse and Jockey public house at Bentley.
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Notes about this historic site
1 A rectangular waterfilled moat is shown enclosing an L-shaped building.
2 There is no surface evidence of the moat.
3 Sketch from the Francis Stratford Estate map.
4 The moat is visible as a earthwork on google.co.uk/maps
5Visible as a cropmark on various aerial photos including HER 2007 layer, Google Earth 1999, 2006, 2013
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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