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Park Closes moated lodge is a medieval moated homestead located in Yorkshire. The monument comprises a rectangular moated enclosure which would have originally defended a timber-framed or stone domestic dwelling of the kind typical of minor gentry or substantial yeoman farmers during the medieval period. Such moated sites, whilst most numerous in the Midlands and south-eastern England, represent an important category of rural settlement archaeology and provide evidence of social hierarchy and land use patterns in the medieval countryside. The site's survival as an upstanding earthwork makes it a valuable record of domestic and defensive arrangements in a period when modest fortification of this type was an established feature of the rural landscape.
Park Closes moated lodge, 130m south west of Park Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015311. View the official record →
Park Closes moated lodge is a medieval moated homestead located in Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015311.
Park Closes moated lodge, 130m south west of Park Farm 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 1015311.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moated grange at Monk Farm (3.5 km), Moated site at Chapelgarth, 450m north east of Manor Farm (5.5 km), Moated site 170m north of Wholsea Farm (6.2 km).
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