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The moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds is an ancient monument comprising interconnected medieval landscape features in Shropshire. The moated enclosure represents a medieval residential or manorial focus, whilst the ridge and furrow earthworks are characteristic of open-field arable cultivation practised during the medieval period. The building platform to the north indicates a structure associated with the settlement complex. Together, these features document medieval settlement and agricultural organisation within the wider landscape, providing material evidence of land use and habitation patterns from that era.
Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1019298. View the official record →
The moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds is an ancient monument comprising interconnected medieval landscape features in Shropshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1019298.
Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds 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 1019298.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moated site and fishpond 450m north west of Hunkington (3.4 km), Moated site and a fishpond 160m and 280m south of The Farm, Charlton (4.7 km), Haughmond Abbey: an Augustinian monastery on the site of an earlier religious foundation, a post-Dissolution residence and garden remains (5.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds'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, ridge and furrow cultivation remains and a building platform immediately north of Lower Grounds stands on Permian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.