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Worlick moated site and fishponds is a medieval monument located in Huntingdonshire, England. The site comprises a moated enclosure together with associated fishponds, features characteristic of high medieval settlement and resource management in the English countryside. The moated site likely dates to the twelfth or thirteenth century, a period when such defensive domestic enclosures became increasingly common among the gentry and substantial landholders. The fishponds represent the deliberate exploitation of water resources for food production, a practice integral to medieval manorial economy and domestic provisioning.
Worlick moated site and fishponds is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013285. View the official record →
Worlick moated site and fishponds is a medieval monument located in Huntingdonshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013285.
Worlick moated site and fishponds 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 1013285.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Five bowl barrows 100m north of Waypost Farm: part of a barrow cemetery south of Ramsey Forty Foot (1.3 km), Two bowl barrows 320m NNW of Waypost Farm: part of a barrow cemetery south of Ramsey Forty Foot (1.5 km), Ramsey Abbey (remains of) (2.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Worlick moated site and fishponds'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.
Worlick moated site and fishponds stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.