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Moated site 200m north east of St Nicholas's Church is a medieval defensive settlement located near Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire. The site comprises the earthwork remains of a moat, a water-filled ditch that formerly enclosed a residential or manorial precinct, a characteristic feature of medieval settlement patterns dating from approximately the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. Such moated sites served both practical and symbolic functions, providing protection for inhabitants and their livestock whilst denoting social status and territorial authority. The survival of the moat's earthwork remains makes this site of importance for understanding medieval settlement hierarchy and land use in the Chiltern region.
Moated site 200m north east of St Nicholas's Church is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018668. View the official record →
Moated site 200m north east of St Nicholas's Church is a medieval defensive settlement located near Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018668.
Moated site 200m north east of St Nicholas's Church 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 1018668.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including A bowl barrow on Church Hill 200m south of church (3.2 km), Moated site 80m west of Cedars Farm (3.6 km), Snelshall Benedictine Priory: a moated priory site and fishponds north of Briary Plantation (4.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site 200m north east of St Nicholas's Church'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.
Moated site 200m north east of St Nicholas's Church stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.