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Thorpe Latimer is a complex archaeological site in Lincolnshire containing remains of medieval settlement activity, including a moated enclosure characteristic of the period's defensive domestic arrangements. The site preserves evidence of medieval cultivation patterns alongside post-medieval modifications to the landscape, including formal park and garden elements that reflect changing attitudes towards land use and estate management. The moated feature and associated settlement remains date primarily to the medieval period, whilst the garden and park elements represent later phases of activity on the site, demonstrating long-term use and modification of this location across several centuries.
Medieval moated site, settlement and cultivation remains, post-medieval park and garden, Thorpe Latimer is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010708. View the official record →
Thorpe Latimer is a complex archaeological site in Lincolnshire containing remains of medieval settlement activity, including a moated enclosure characteristic of the period's defensive domestic arrangements. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010708.
Medieval moated site, settlement and cultivation remains, post-medieval park and garden, Thorpe Latimer 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 1010708.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 210m SSW of The Limes (5.3 km), Bowl barrow 220m south of The Limes (5.4 km), Churchyard cross, St Peter's churchyard (5.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Medieval moated site, settlement and cultivation remains, post-medieval park and garden, Thorpe Latimer'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.
Medieval moated site, settlement and cultivation remains, post-medieval park and garden, Thorpe Latimer stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.