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Moated site with garden earthworks at Bletsoe Castle is a complex of medieval earthworks located in Bedfordshire. The site comprises a substantial moat surrounding a residential platform, typical of high-status medieval settlement sites, alongside surviving ridge and furrow cultivation patterns and other garden earthworks that indicate the domestic and agricultural organisation of the castle precinct. The moated enclosure and associated landscape features date primarily to the medieval period, reflecting the long occupation and development of Bletsoe as a significant Bedfordshire lordship. The earthworks remain substantially visible and preserve important archaeological evidence of medieval domestic life and estate management at this once-important fortified residence.
Moated site with garden earthworks at Bletsoe Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012365. View the official record →
Moated site with garden earthworks at Bletsoe Castle is a complex of medieval earthworks located in Bedfordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012365.
Moated site with garden earthworks at Bletsoe Castle 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 1012365.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Oakley churchyard cross (5.7 km), Oakley Bridge (5.8 km), Stevington village cross (6.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Moated site with garden earthworks at Bletsoe Castle'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 with garden earthworks at Bletsoe Castle stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.