More information : [SD 59921541] OLD HALL (site of) MOAT [G.T.] (1)
Earthwork Class F. [Homestead Moats - simple enclosures formed
into artificial islands by water moats] - at site of Old Hall (Heath
Charnock) (2)
Trial trenches dug in 1954 revealed 12th. to 13th. century
pottery down to 18th. century roof tiles. (3)
"The whole of Heath Charnock lay within the fee of Penwortam,
and was included in the five plough-lands given by Warine Bussell
to Randle, son of Roger de Marsey, and afterwards held by the
Ferrers family and the by 'the lords of Leylandshire' or Lord
Ferrers. Before 1288 two subordinate manors had been created, a
third part being then held of William de Ferrers by Thomas Banastre
..... and the remainder by William son of Hugh Gogard .... of these
manors the former was acquired by marriage by John Harrington of
Farleton, who at his death in 1359 was seised of certain lands and
tenements in Heath Charnock held of Sir Richard de Shireburne and
John de Ardenne .... With other Harrington estates it was
obtained by the first Lord Mounteagle, and descended in his family
during the 16thc., being sold in 1574 by William Lord Mounteagle to
Thomas Walmesley the younger, and Robert Charnock. Three years later
Walmsley sold his moiety to Thomas Standish of Duxbury and in
subsequent inquisitions the 'manor of Heath Charnock' was considered
to be held by Standish of Duxbury and Charnock of Charnock
Richard, in moieties The former descended with Duxbury and
occurs as 'the manor' as late as 1768 in a settlement of Sir Frank
Standish's lands; the Charnock moiety seems to have been acquired
by the Standish family ...." (4)
HALL [G.T.] (Site of) (5)
The average width of the moat is 15.0m, and the maximum depth is
3.0m., on all four sides. A cause-wayed entrance is in the
south side a little east of centre. The interior is level and is, at
the present time, freshly ploughed. No traces of occupation are now
to be seen. The south-east corner of the moat is half filled
with rubbish from the farm nearby, the east side is filled with
stagnant water, the north side is marshy, the west side is
waterfilled but full of bushes and small trees, and the south side,
west of the entrance, contains clear water.
The site is upon a slight levelling-out on a north-west facing
pasture slope. There is all-round visibility except to the
hilltop to the south-east. (6)
SD 5992 1541. Bretters Farm moated site and two fishponds. Scheduled
RSM No 13482. The moated site known as 'Old Hall' lies some 30m N of
Bretters Farm. The grassy island measures 48m x 38m and is surrounded
by a partly waterlogged moat averaging 15m wide and up to 3m deep
with an outlet channel issuing from the NW corner. Access to the
island is via a causeway across the S arm. Adjacent to the W arm is
a triangular waterlogged pond 18m N-S x 24m E-W and connected to the
moat by a short channel. Adjacent to the N arm is a sub-circular
waterlogged fishpond 14m in diameter also connected to the moat by
a short channel. There is an outer bank 3m wide and up to 0.2m high
adjacent to the moat's E arm. Recent de-turfing of the island
exposed significant structural fondations just below the present
ground surface. (7)
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