Ladbrooke, Tanworth-in-Arden

The moat site is situated 1.8 km north-west of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Tanworth-in-Arden, and although shown on the 2020 Ordnance Survey map, has been filled in so no visible trace survives.

[8] On the downfall of the Earls of Warwick it escheated to the crown and in 1544 was acquired (as "Lodbrokes Park") by Sir George Throckmorton (c.1489-1552) of Coughton Court in Warwickshire (13 km to the south), when it comprised 288 acres.

In 1571 the deer park was stated to be 2 miles in circuit, replenished with roes, furnished with a great number of timber trees, and hath also two springe woodes or coppices containing by estimacon about 40 acres.

[2] The estate eventually passed to the ownership of the Archer family, seated at nearby Umberslade Hall in Warwickshire (3.8 km to the east) since the reign of King Henry II (1154-1189).

[11] Oscar Bowen was a man fond of humour and recorded his occupation on the 1911 census as "playing golf and obeying the baby", which was deleted by the enumerator and replaced with "private means".

Ladbrooke Hall (or Ladbrooke Park) in 1908, then the residence of Oscar Bowen (1865-1916), viewed from south, surviving today as two dwellings known as Ladbrooke Hall East and West; [ 1 ] the ancient moat, now surrounded by the golf course, is situated 320 metres to the east (right)
Entrance to Ladbrook Park Golf Club, the grounds of which cover the site of the medieval manor house of Ladbrooke and its moat