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Garden, moat and five fishponds at Kirby Bellars is a complex of medieval water features and landscaping associated with a former monastic and manorial settlement in Leicestershire. The site comprises an impressive arrangement of fishponds and a moat that served both practical and ornamental functions, typical of high-status medieval establishments where water management demonstrated wealth and control of resources. The fishponds, arranged in a linear sequence, would have supplied fresh fish for the table whilst also contributing to the visual design of the grounds. The features date primarily to the medieval period and represent a significant survival of the landscape engineering that characterised substantial religious and aristocratic properties of this era.
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 landscaping associated with a former monastic and manorial settlement 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).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Garden, moat and five fishponds at Kirby Bellars's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Garden, moat and five fishponds at Kirby Bellars stands on Lias Group, bedrock that formed in the Aalenian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, limestone and sandstone.