Moated manor site, Salford Priors

1 In the field known as the Vineyard, adjoining the church on the west, are some mounds and ditches which have often been supposed to mark the foundations of the manor house. They seem rather to belong to old gravel pits, though, as the manor court was being held at the Vineyard in 1547, a house belonging to the abbots of Kenilworth may once have stood near this site.
2 Here there are indications of extensive quarrying only; no ruins or foundations can be traced.
3 Letter from the former vicar requesting information about the site. There was a local tradition of a large house at the site and he had a photograph which seemed to show square foundations.
4 Those who said there was something here were right. LiDAR imagery shows a large square earthwork in south-west corner of monument boundary which is likley to be the site of a moated manor. Other earthworks do suggest some quarrying witinn the monument boundary but other settlement earthworks may survive.
56 The large square earthwork, measuring c.55 x 51m, at SP0758 5091 was mapped by the National Mapping Programme, and is visible on a number of Google Earth satellite imagery layers. In addition, a series of parchmarks are visible centred on SP0767 5103 that appear to represent the outline of a building aligned NE-SW, approx. 40m x 40m.
7 LiDAR shows the substantial moated platform and some slight earthworks at the north-west corner of the possible building. Some quarrying is evident, but is not as substantial as suggested in 2. Printout in FI file.