More information : In 1398 Thomas de Fouleshurst of Edlaston "had a license (a) for an oratory in his manor of Edleston and Cressage: the latter apparently some place in or near this township. [Edlaston] perhaps the name of a hamlet where the hall stood." "The hall, a plain farmhouse, has passed with the manor." The following may refer: I,p.m. 16 Henry VI (b) John de Fouleshurst held, inter alia, 1/3 pt. of the manor [of Edlaston] "que guidem due partes se extendunt in aulam and coquinam cum le larder hous grangia in juxta le gerner stabutu juxta le Baily chaumbre le yate hous le chaumbre on the bridge, with le pristes chaumbre, & c." 1 p.m. 18 Henry VI as above, but adding after the 'Yatehouse' ... ad introitum v'sus occidentem infra fossatum cu duabz partibz capelle" & c. (1) [SJ 6380 5077] Moat [G.T.] (2) Edleston - lists above under 'Homestead Moat'. (3) Moated grange. (4) In 1947 the moat was partially filled in. An annotated resurvey of the moat has been made. No trace of the chapel was found. (5) Published survey (25" 1963) checked and found correct. (6)
SJ 6379 5076. Edleston moated site and fishond. Scheduled RSM No 13518. The site includes an island raised up to 1.5m high and measuring some 50m by 30m. Surrounding the island is a partially infilled dry moat that is best preserved on the south and west sides where it is up to 17m wide by 1m deep. On the monuments western side the moat widens out to form a dry fishpond measuring 45m by 35m and 1m deep. (7)
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