Monument Number 23889 |
Hob Uid: 23889 | |
Location : North Yorkshire Richmondshire Stapleton
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Grid Ref : NZ2650012000 |
Summary : Supposed former site of the village of Stapleton with medieval "moats and mounds" recorded. |
More information : (NZ 265120) Distinct traces of early settlement are to the east of the Green at Stapleton. Here a triangular field "rough with moats and mounds" is postulated by Chetwynd-Stapylton as the site of the original Saxon village of Stapleton. VCH with reference to Chetwynd-Stapylton says "in corroboration of this witness of the mounds and moats is the grant of Benedict de Stapleton to St. Agatha's Abbey in the early 13th century of his capital messuage and of 'all my new garden on the south as far as my old tower' ". Le Patourel comments that a capital messuage of the Stapleton family is said to have retained moats until the early 19th century and sites it to NZ 264118 (at a building called Stapleton Manor on OS 1:10000 1971. The moats she refers to may have been at the supposed village site described by Chetwynd-Stapylton or possibly in Garth Field - see NZ 21 SE 37. The remains of a Medieval fortified manor house referred to by VCH may also be at either site.) (1-3)
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