Possible medieval to post-medieval moat or drainage ditch at Tile End (EHER 1248)

Possible homestead moat, but there are some suggestions that this may in fact be the remains of a drainage ditch.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Moat (NR). <1> Moat in very poor condition and overgrown. <2> February 1950. Feld survey. Fragmentary remains of a moat at Tile End. <3> <4> March 1975. Field survey. The linear water feature on the north side of the house has the appearance and size of a drainage ditch, about 2.0m wide, and cannot be identified as the remains of a moat although vague depressions show it once turned south to connect with a pond shown on the Ordnance Survey 25" map at TL 6608 2105. This is now filled in. The tithe map of around 1839 does not show a moat. <5> <6> 1977. Field survey. Above Chelmer valley, in village, incomplete, rectangular. North arm only survives. 3m wide, 1m deep, wet. <7> Tracing from sketch by Stokes from 1876 25" OS map and site visit is on back MSRG card and back of SMR sheet. <8> 1994. Survey. Probably a drainage ditch. The site lies outside the area of the country park. <9>