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Blue Man's Bower moated site is a medieval defensive earthwork located near Whiston in Yorkshire. The site comprises a substantial moat surrounding what would have been a residential or manorial enclosure, typical of the moated homesteads constructed by minor gentry and substantial farmers during the medieval period. The earthwork represents the domestic arrangements of the high and late medieval periods, when such moated sites served both practical and status-bearing functions within the rural settlement hierarchy. The monument survives as an upstanding earthwork and constitutes an important archaeological record of medieval Yorkshire's dispersed settlement patterns and the material expression of social differentiation in the countryside.
Blue Man's Bower moated site, Whiston is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012201. View the official record →
Blue Man's Bower moated site is a medieval defensive earthwork located near Whiston in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012201.
Blue Man's Bower moated site, Whiston is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1012201.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Canklow Hill earthworks (1.2 km), The glassworks cone (1.6 km), Old Bridge (3.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Blue Man's Bower moated site, Whiston's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Blue Man's Bower moated site, Whiston stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.