Undated possible moat at Duddenhoe Grange (EHER 3893)

Moat at Duddenhoe Grange. Alleged moat - not an antiquity

Moat at Duddenhoe Grange. <1> About 1 1/2 miles south west of the church and very incomplete. <2> Moat is very fragmentary, the west and north arms are wet as is the eastern end of the south arm which now forms a pond. The rest of the south arm is dry and in very poor condition. the dry ditch which appears as a southern extension of the pond was probably designed as a drainage channel from the fields to the moat as it slopes down to the pond and could never be water-filled. Moat in fair condition. <3> Site Assessment = Fragmentary but in fair condition. <3> Incomplete, rectangular moat, 5m wide, 1-2m deep. Enclosure is flat or falls with general contours. Curiously shaped duck pond in front of house has two short extensions at right angles which could be the beginnings of moat arms, one of which has been obliterated by the garden of the house. The other can be traced across the field for 30m. Neither could have held water as the ground rises in both directions. Behind the house (at a much higher level) are further lengths of ditch 5m wide and 1m deep, and one dry length. <4> NRHE data transfer: Homestead moat at Duddenhoe Grange, Elmdon, very incomplete. <5> 1975. Field survey. This is not the remains of a moat. On the north and west side of the Grange are drainage ditches about 2.0-3.0m wide, and between them a pond apparently formed by clay digging. On the east side of the house, only a slight depression remains of the channel extending from a farmyard pond. There is no local tradition of a moat at the Grange. <6> 1977. Field survey No evidence of a moat seen on Enclosure Award. <7> See also: <8>