Site of Moat at Cestersover Farm

A Medieval moat on the 1886 Ordnance Survey map near Monks Kirby

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Description of this historic site

The site of a moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building. It is of Medieval or Post Medieval date. It is visible on aerial photographs and survives as an earthwork. It is situated at Cestersover, Monks Kirby.

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Notes about this historic site

1 1960: The N arm and the N halves of the E and W arms of the moat survive wet. There are traces of the remainder of the moat visible as a vague depression on the S of the house. 1977: Moat has been filled in.
3 Bloxam quotes from Dr Stukeley (1722): ‘I found a house in a little square, deeply intrenched upon the side of a hill, but the earth rather thrown outward than inward as a vallum, and the level within much lower than the field around it’.
5 Moat shows on aerial photographs.
6 The moat has been filled in.
7 Scheduled as Warwickshire Monument No 109.
8 Scheduling information.