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Garden, moat and five fishponds at Kirby Bellars is a complex of medieval water features and landscape elements located in Leicestershire. The site comprises a moated enclosure associated with fishponds, representing medieval agricultural and domestic management of water resources typical of high-status settlements in the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. The fishponds, arranged in a linear sequence, would have served both practical purposes for food production and aesthetic functions within the garden landscape of the manor. The surviving earthworks demonstrate the substantial investment in water engineering undertaken by the inhabitants of Kirby Bellars during the medieval period.
Garden, moat and five fishponds at Kirby Bellars is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010304. View the official record →
Garden, moat and five fishponds at Kirby Bellars is a complex of medieval water features and landscape elements located in Leicestershire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010304.
Garden, moat and five fishponds at Kirby Bellars 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 1010304.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Kirby Bellars Priory (0.6 km), Medieval settlement remains immediately north east and 210m south east of White House Farm (2 km), Stump Cross, approximately 700m south of Main Street, Frisby on the Wreake (2.3 km).
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