Possible 17th century ponds or moat at Park Wood (EHER 3999)

Supposed moated site - not an antiquity.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: A monument is Chrishall Church "commemorates Sir Cane James, who formerly resided in the parish at, it is supposed, a house, now pulled down, in the adjoining wood. There has been a moat, and there is a space which might have contained a house". <1> This moat is thought to be "merely an ornamental adjunct to the gardens of a mansion built in the 17th century by Sir John James when this great wood was the park of Chrishall Hall". <2> March 1975. Field visit. There is no evidence that two irregular shaped connected ponds, in close woodland, are the remains of a moat. Although possibly ornamental, there is no trace of a structure in the vicinity or of a 'garden' layout. <3> Two irregular ponds in Park Wood, respected by a trackway, suggest the possible site of a circular moat. The site is immediately to the east of a larger moated enclosure (sub-circular) in Chrishall village. Sketch on SMR sheet of the 'moats'. <4> See also: <5>