Scheduled MonumentsEnglandNew Hall moat and fishpond

New Hall moat and fishpond

England
List entry 1010055
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1010055
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.86 hectares
Grid reference
SE 25914 15892
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

New Hall moat and fishpond is a medieval earthwork monument located in Yorkshire. The site comprises the remains of a moated enclosure associated with a domestic or manorial settlement, typical of high-status medieval habitation from approximately the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. The earthworks include the characteristic ditched enclosure that would have surrounded the hall, together with an adjoining fishpond, a feature commonly integrated into medieval elite settlements for both practical food production and aesthetic purposes. These earthworks survive as substantial ground features and represent the physical layout of a medieval aristocratic or gentry residence.

New Hall moat and fishpond is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010055. View the official record →

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Questions & answers

What is New Hall moat and fishpond?

New Hall moat and fishpond is a medieval earthwork monument located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010055.

Who is responsible for protecting New Hall moat and fishpond?

New Hall moat and fishpond 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 1010055.

What other scheduled monuments are near New Hall moat and fishpond?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Shaft head and associated headgear near Caphouse Colliery, Overton (1.1 km), Iron mining shaft mounds and medieval earthworks south of Bentley Grange Farm (2.8 km), Thornhill Hall moat and sites of formal gardens and bowling green, and remnant of pre-seventeenth century open-field system (3 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
Laser-scanned terrain that reveals earthworks hidden under fields and woodland, with likely features flagged.
Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
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Legal
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The ground beneath

The bedrock under New Hall moat and fishpond

New Hall moat and fishpond 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.