Monument record 0041202000 - MANOR FARM MOAT

Plan Form - L Shaped.
Traces of moats which must have belonged to a large mansion (B1).
Remains of moat comprise waterfilled E arm c.9m wide & 2m deep with retaining bank on both sides & traces of now dry S arm c.50m long, 9m wide & 1m deep. Rest destroyed by modern development (B8).

A moated site and other earthworks of medieval and post medieval date are visible on historic aerial photographs and remote sensing data as extant earthworks/ and were mapped as part of the Aylesbury Vale Aerial Investigation and Mapping project (EBC18604). Located north of Manor Farm, Weston Turville, and centred at SP 85457 10749. Only the eastern side of the moat is visible as earthworks on lidar visualisations, in the 1940s it could only be seen as a wooded area but is visible as a wide ditch on lidar visualisations. The northern side may be traceable along the course of the footpath, but it is not clear from the sources available to this project. In the open space to the east of the moated site further earthworks of probable boundaries or the remains of formal gardens can be seen forming subrectangular enclosures. These are on the same alignment as the subrectangular moat and some of the ditches may have been for water supply or drainage for the same. The ditches fit in to the pattern of ridge and furrow earthworks which remain around the site and extend in to plot boundaries along the south side of Main Street. (9-11)