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Turnpike Farm moated enclosure is a medieval settlement site located in Bedfordshire, comprising a substantial moated platform surrounded by associated cultivation earthworks. The moat itself forms a roughly rectangular enclosure typical of high medieval domestic arrangements, likely dating from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries, and would have originally enclosed a timber or stone dwelling with its attendant service buildings. The surrounding earthworks represent the agrarian landscape contemporary with the moated site, preserving evidence of ridge and furrow cultivation and other field systems that sustained the medieval community. The monument survives as an important example of the interaction between domestic settlement and its agricultural hinterland in the English Midlands during the medieval period.
Turnpike Farm moated enclosure and associated cultivation earthworks. is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012069. View the official record →
Turnpike Farm moated enclosure is a medieval settlement site located in Bedfordshire, comprising a substantial moated platform surrounded by associated cultivation earthworks. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012069.
Turnpike Farm moated enclosure and associated cultivation earthworks. 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 1012069.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Three barrows and a rectilinear enclosure 1000m NNW of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complex (9.4 km), Hengi-form monument 480m south of Dairy Farm (9.4 km), Bowl barrow 550m south-east of Dairy Farm (9.5 km).
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