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Green Lane Farm Moated Site is a medieval moated enclosure located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference FL176. The monument comprises a water-filled ditch that originally enclosed a residential farmstead, a defensive feature characteristic of medieval rural settlement in the Welsh borderlands and beyond. The ditch would have served both practical and symbolic purposes, marking the boundary of the holding and providing security for the inhabitants and their livestock.
The site sits upon bedrock of the Millstone Grit Group, a Namurian formation composed of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone that would have shaped both the drainage patterns and the labour required to excavate the moat. The local geology, combined with available water, made this location suitable for the construction of such an enclosure, typical of the 13th to 15th centuries when moated sites flourished as a settlement form across medieval Britain.
Though now a landscape feature rather than a functioning farmstead, Green Lane Farm Moated Site preserves physical evidence of the medieval countryside and the methods by which farming families established their homes and territories. The survival of the water-filled ditch offers insight into medieval settlement patterns and the relationship between landscape, geology and human habitation during the late medieval period.
Green Lane Farm Moated Site is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference FL176. View the official record →
Green Lane Farm Moated Site is a medieval moated enclosure located in Wales and protected by Cadw under reference FL176.
Green Lane Farm Moated Site dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a moated site. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Green Lane Farm Moated Site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is FL176.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Caer Estyn Hillfort (6.6 km), Caergwrle Packhorse Bridge (6.8 km), Castell Caergwrle (7.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Green Lane Farm Moated Site'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.
Green Lane Farm Moated Site stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.