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Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains, a post-medieval formal garden and pond bays 600m south east of Court Farm, Gretton, is a scheduled ancient monument in Shropshire comprising a complex of medieval and post-medieval landscape features. The site incorporates a moated enclosure of medieval date, associated with domestic settlement, alongside ridge and furrow fields indicating medieval or earlier agricultural use of the surrounding land. Post-medieval formal garden features and pond bays represent later intensification and refinement of the site during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. The monument demonstrates continuity of occupation and land use across several centuries, with successive phases of modification reflecting changing agricultural practices and domestic arrangements.
Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains, a post-medieval formal garden and pond bays 600m south east of Court Farm, Gretton is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020149. View the official record →
Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains, a post-medieval formal garden and pond bays 600m south east of Court Farm, Gretton, is a scheduled ancient monument in Shropshire comprising a complex of medieval and post-medieval landscape features. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020149.
Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains, a post-medieval formal garden and pond bays 600m south east of Court Farm, Gretton 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 1020149.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Motte castle immediately north east of Church Farm (2.9 km), Packhorse bridge S of St Peter's Church (3.3 km), Caer Caradoc large multivallate hillfort, associated causeway and Caractacus' Cave on the summit of Caer Caradoc Hill (4.2 km).
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