Moat Court
Early-attested site in the Parish of Great Malvern
Historical Forms
- Grange de la Motte 1535 VE
- Mote Court 1541 LP
Etymology
OFr mote , motte was used of a mound, hillock, or embankment and may already in Normandy have come to develop its later English sense of moat or ditch. There is still a moat here.