A medieval moated farmstead was found in Ashford during a rescue excavation in advance of construction works for a housing development. An internal platform was found, surrounded on all four sides by a moat with a causewayed entrance on the west side. Found on the platform were the remains of two possible buildings, one of which showed signs of post-medieval industrial activity. The moat is clearly visible in a good condition on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition map of c.1861 at Parsonage Farm. Its remains are also visible on the 2nd and 3rd edition maps of c.1895-1922. The small amount of finds from the site dated to the 13th - 15th centuries, indicating this was probably the main period of acitivity at the site.