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Monument Number 54959
Hob Uid: 54959
Location : North Yorkshire Selby Tadcaster
Grid Ref : SE4860043250
Summary : Traces of Tadcaster town defences are recorded in the 18th and 19th centuries, Camden refering to a ditch surrounding the town as a part of the defences of the Roman town. There are now no extant remains.
More information : [Area centred SE 4860 4325] Hachuring of a bank or terrace shown but not described [which together with property boundaries forms an apparently continuous earthwork on the west side of Tadcaster with a corner formed in the south-west]. (1) Speight (2) refers to 'entrenchments' extending along the lane south-west of 'John Smith's brewery' by St. Joseph's Lane past Castle Hill on the north side where some traces existed. He associates them with the Battle of Tadcaster Bridge in 1642 [SE 44 S.E. 15] but Camden (3) refers to a ditch surrounding the town as part of the defences of the Roman town [see SE 44 S.E.7]. (2-3) The town defences at Tadcaster have now disappeared but may have dated from early Norman or a pre-conquest period, the motte [SE 44 SE 6] probably having been superimposed. (4)

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Source details : OS 6" 1846-9
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Source details : Britannia, III, 1789, 8 (Camden, ed Gough).
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Source details : (HG Ramm)
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Vol(s) : 41, 1966

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Source details : Lower Wharfedale, 1902, 259-60, (H Speight)
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Source details : Medieval Towns in England and Wales, Barley (ed).
Page(s) : 58-9
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Vol(s) : 14 - 1975

Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Town Defences
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Post Medieval
Monument End Date : 1901
Monument Start Date : 1540
Monument Type : Town Defences
Evidence : Documentary Evidence

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SE 44 SE 16
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Monument Number 54959