More information : (SU 68559479) Castle (L.B.) (Site of) (T.I.) Moat (L.B.) (1)
The earliest reference to a manor-house occurs in C.1250, and in 1338 Nicholas de la Beche was given licence to crenellate. Water called a "moat" round the site is mentioned in 1442. This moat
was partly in the present churchyard and is still met with in digging graves, and partly beyond the end of Church Street where it is still visible. The house seems to have gone by the early C17th. (2)
The OS published site of the castle falls within a field of rough pasture. No trace of building material was found.
The name "Moat" is applied to a stretch of a stream that has at sometime been widened to accommodate a line of watercress beds, now disused, and the stream otherwise presents no similarities to a moat. No traces of a moat were found in the fields around the castle site or in the old and new graveyards. (3)
Listed by Cathcart King. (4) |