Monument record MLI32917 - MOAT, WITH POSSIBLE MANOR HOUSE

Summary

MOAT, WITH POSSIBLE MANOR HOUSE

Type and Period (1)

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Full Description

Three sides of this small moat survive, enclosing an orchard, with no evidence of a building site. It is almost certainly ornamental & probably C18th. Published survey (25'), revised. {1} Position of earthwork between the church & surviving part of 'the house with 20 chimneys' strongly suggests it to be an early manor house site. Surveyed by V. Ancliffe {3}

Sources/Archives (3)

  •  Index: OS CARD INDEX. DOWSBY. TF 12 NW:2,1965, DA.
  •  Index: SMR FILE. DOWSBY. TF 12 NW:AX,1978, KAM.
  •  Index: Parish card index of the former South Lincolnshire Archaeology Unit. DOWSBY. - -.

Map

Location

Grid reference Centred TF 1127 2919 (93m by 91m)
Civil Parish DOWSBY, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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