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Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds is a medieval monument located in Lancashire, comprising a moated enclosure alongside associated fishponds. The moated site represents a form of settlement characteristic of the medieval period, when such water-surrounded homesteads served both defensive and practical functions for farming communities. The fishponds indicate the site's connection to medieval agricultural and dietary practices, as artificial fisheries were common features on manorial and substantial farming properties. The monument survives as earthwork remains and is protected as a scheduled ancient monument, preserving evidence of medieval settlement patterns and land management in the Lancashire landscape.
Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009350. View the official record →
Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds is a medieval monument located in Lancashire, comprising a moated enclosure alongside associated fishponds. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009350.
Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds 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 1009350.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Headless Cross, Grimeford (3.1 km), Round cairn on Noon Hill (4.8 km), Moated site at Arley Hall, Haigh near Wigan (4.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds'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.
Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.