Though Goltho Hall is probably the site of a late medieval moated park lodge and perhaps of an earlier medieval settlement, the features recoverable from field investigation and aerial photographs are most likely to be all post medieval formal garden remains associated with the 16th century house, although earlier details may have been adapted. The garden layout is of a form generally datable to the late 16th or early 17th century. To the west of the hall the only unploughed feature is a four-armed water-filled moat; its former eastern extension is recorded on early 25 inch Ordnance Survey maps, with a right-angled turn north to the site of a large pond. This strongly suggests itself as part of an outer moated circuit, now infilled by farm buildings and gardens at the northeast. Part of the surviving moat probably formed an inner rectangular enclosure, perhaps originally the principal building platform. The limited survival of this inner moat was clearly determined by the construction within it of a brick wall around three sides of a 19th century garden, the north wall includes an earlier section, presumably part of the Granthams' complex. Attached to the northwest of the moat lay a large rectangular embanked close, probably a garden, with an internal, probably ornamental, pond. To the south a second enclosure, trapezoidal in shape with an internal pond and an outlet to the east, survives as a soilmark, and was probably another garden feature. The first edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch map shows a scarp south of the hall, probably a ha-ha, which has been obliterated by the southern extension of the gardens in recent times. {1}