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Templars' site at Moat Farm, Hedgerley is a medieval moated enclosure in Buckinghamshire associated with the Knights Templar. The site comprises a substantial earthwork consisting of a moat and associated banks, which survives as a prominent topographical feature within the landscape. Dating to the medieval period, the site reflects the landholdings and settlement patterns of the Templars in southern England before the suppression of the order in the early fourteenth century. The moated form represents a common defensive and status-conscious settlement type employed by wealthy medieval institutions and landowners.
Templars' site at Moat Farm, Hedgerley is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1006922. View the official record →
Templars' site at Moat Farm, Hedgerley is a medieval moated enclosure in Buckinghamshire associated with the Knights Templar. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1006922.
Templars' site at Moat Farm, Hedgerley 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 1006922.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bulstrode Park camp (1.7 km), Moated site in Bower Wood, 560m south west of Bower Wood Cottages (2.3 km), Bowl barrow on Beaconsfield golf course, known as `The Mount' (3.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Templars' site at Moat Farm, Hedgerley'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.
Templars' site at Moat Farm, Hedgerley stands on Lambeth Group, bedrock that formed in the Paleocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.