A pond, formerly a larger pool, known as the moat. The body of water is shown on the OS drawings of 1797, skirted by the road to High Oak Hill. It is labelled on the Newington Tithe Map of 1840 as 'pool'. By the time of the 2nd edition OS map, at the turn of the 20th century, a sheepwash had been created at northern end of the pool where water appears to have fed out into a stream. Moat Cottage and Moat View are the two modern properties closest to the pond which is shown on modern OS mapping as a horse-shoe shaped featured. The pool clearly predates the road from Newington to High Oak Hill which diverts around to the south of the feature. It is unclear what function the pond originally served but it could be some form of mill pond, possibly of medieval or early post medieval date.