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Moated site in Mapperley Park Wood is a medieval moated enclosure located in Derbyshire. The site comprises a substantial rectangular moat surrounding a central platform, a defensive earthwork type characteristic of the 12th to 16th centuries. Such moated sites typically served as the domestic and administrative centres of minor medieval landholders, though their precise chronology and social function remain subjects of scholarly investigation. The survival of the earthwork at Mapperley Park Wood provides evidence of medieval settlement patterns and land use in the region.
Moated site in Mapperley Park Wood is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010504. View the official record →
Moated site in Mapperley Park Wood is a medieval moated enclosure located in Derbyshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010504.
Moated site in Mapperley Park Wood 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 1010504.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Park Hall moated site, well and enclosure (1 km), Medieval iron working remains at Stanley monastic grange (2 km), Moated site and two fishponds at Moat Wood (2.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site in Mapperley Park Wood'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 in Mapperley Park Wood stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.