Medieval moat at Moor's Farm (EHER 8230)

A medieval moat at Moor's Farm.

A moat surrounds Moor's Farm, Little Totham, (which is of early 17th century date). See EHER 8231 for the house. <1> Incomplete, rectangular house. <2> Sketch plan on back of Medieval Settlement Research Group (MSRG) card. <3> Copy of OS plan card in EHER. <4> Name mentioned in 1442 as `Mores' in a Rental, as `le, the Mo(o)re' in 1481, 1522, and was the home of Richard `atte More' in 1319. <5> Moat (NR). <6> September 1976. Field survey. Moor's Farm House (name confirmed) is as described above but modernised and not outstanding. See ground photographs. The house is surrounded by a narrow, waterfilled rectangular drainage moat dug on level ground. It measures overall 115.0m east-west by 70.0m north-south with arms averaging 6.0m wide by up to 1.5m deep. The original entrance causeway was probably in the centre of the north arm; a later bridge crosses the east arm. Published 1:2500 survey correct. <7> <8> Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import.