Wickersley Moat Farm
Has been described as a Questionable Fortified Manor House
There are earthwork remains
Name | Wickersley Moat Farm |
Alternative Names | |
Historic Country | Yorkshire |
Modern Authority | Rotherham |
1974 Authority | South Yorkshire |
Civil Parish | Wickersley |
O.S. Card - "consists of two artificial ponds, one dry, and a 'ha-ha' - cannot be identified as a moat". (O.S. card (map), V.C.H. Yorks 2, 1912, 52)
On the north side of the farm are two ponds, the eastern dry, forming a line c.60 m. long. From the eastern end of these, the east boundary of the site is formed by a sunken wall or ha-ha. There are no evidences of any ditch or moat on the south or west. Farm buildings and house partly 18th century or earlier. Despite Le Patourel's classification as type A1(a), this does not appear to be a true moated site (the O.S. no longer regard it as such). The name 'Moat Farm' is given on the 1st edition O.S. map (1854). It is possible that the west, south and east sides of an original moated enclosure have been completely obliterated by later alterations (Ryder 1980). (South Yorkshire SMR)
Not scheduled
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid Reference | SK486904 |
Latitude | 53.4087791442871 |
Longitude | -1.26954996585846 |
Eastings | 448650 |
Northings | 390460 |