1 Noted in 1849 as “The Moat Piece and Moat” (tithe apportionment), this site may represent the surviving earthworks of a moated site.
2 Not in Warwickshire; recorded on Worcestershire HER.
The site of a possible moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building, which dates to the Post Medieval period. It is situated 250m north of the Allotments, Winyates Green, now in Hereford and Worcester.
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