Moat at Clarke's Green Farm, Studley.

Description of this historic site

A possible Medieval moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building. Three possible sides of the moat are shown on an Estate Map of 1863. It remains partially visible as an earthwork, and is situated 100m south of Hardwick Lane at Clarke's Green.

Notes about this historic site

1 A linear pond to the SE of Clarke’s Green farm may be the remaining arm of a moat. It curves N to the E of the present farmhouse and a linear depression continues the line between the farmhouse and the adjacent barn. On the SW side a wide drainage ditch may represent a third arm of the moat running towards Hardwick Lane. There is no sign of any hollow on the roadward side of the farm but this could have been filled in. The entire area is very waterlogged. The present farmhouse is not old, but a timber framed house was demolished to make way for the dairy which now adjoins the farmhouse and during construction the foundations of a yet earlier building were discovered.
2 Estate Map shows parts of 3 possible sides of the moat.
34 Earthworks are partially visible on LiDAR imagery; 2013 aerial photography shows the platform as greatly reduced.

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