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Maxey Castle: a moated site with associated enclosures and a fishpond

England
List entry 1008454
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1008454
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
2.53 hectares
Grid reference
TF 12911 08821
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Maxey Castle is a moated site with associated enclosures and a fishpond located in Northamptonshire, England. The monument consists of a substantial rectangular moat enclosing a raised platform, which once supported a residential structure, together with adjoining earthwork enclosures and a fishpond that served the medieval settlement. Dating from the medieval period, the site represents a form of defended domestic residence typical of the 12th to 14th centuries, when such moated homesteads were constructed by the landowning classes across central England. The surviving earthworks demonstrate the integration of practical water management, defence, and agricultural infrastructure characteristic of high medieval manorial organisation.

Maxey Castle: a moated site with associated enclosures and a fishpond is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1008454. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is Maxey Castle: a moated site with associated enclosures and a fishpond?

Maxey Castle is a moated site with associated enclosures and a fishpond located in Northamptonshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1008454.

Who is responsible for protecting Maxey Castle: a moated site with associated enclosures and a fishpond?

Maxey Castle: a moated site with associated enclosures and a fishpond 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 1008454.

What other scheduled monuments are near Maxey Castle: a moated site with associated enclosures and a fishpond?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Market cross (3.4 km), Torpel Manor (or castle), Ashton (4.2 km), Roman villa N of Oxey Wood (4.8 km).

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Market cross
3.4 km
Torpel Manor (or castle), Ashton
4.2 km
Roman villa N of Oxey Wood
4.8 km
Mound at Langdyke Bush
6.4 km
Three bowl barrows and a ring ditch 590m and 500m north west of The Four Winds
7 km
Shrunken village at Upton
8.5 km
Sutton Heath, Romano-British site
8.7 km
Cropmark site of a barrow cemetery and a quadrilateral ditched enclosure, together with pits and a pit alignment, approximately 837m south-east of Sacrewell Farmhouse
9.9 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Maxey Castle: a moated site with associated enclosures and a fishpond

Maxey Castle: a moated site with associated enclosures and a fishpond stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.

The wider landscape

Around Maxey Castle: a moated site with associated enclosures and a fishpond

Water NewtonRoman town · ~7.4 milesFlag FenArchaeological site · ~9.1 milesAncasterRoman town · ~23.4 milesGodmanchesterRoman town · ~24.9 miles
Domesday entry for Deeping and Deeping, Lincolnshire →
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