More information : TF 04502686 Bulby Hall (NR) (Site of) (NAT). (1)
A moated area in the parish of Irnham is said to have been the site
of Bulby Hall, which is supposed to have been burnt down in the
Barons' wars. (2)
Published survey 2500 revised. (3)
A double moat with defensive characteristics and heavily overgrown is
situated in a wood some 61 m above sea level. It measures overall
150m north-south and 85 m east west and has causeways across the two
southern arms. The arms have a maximum width of 26 m and a maximum
depth of 3.2 m and are seasonally waterfilled with no trace of an
outlet or inlet. The northern island stands level with the
surrounding area and there is a surface scatter of building stone but
no complete foundations can be traced. The southern island is also
level with no trace of a building. Two small fishponds are evident
outside the moat.
Survey revised at 1:2500 on AM. (4)
Documentary evidence cited for two Medieval settlements in Bulby:
Little Bulby, ?along Callan's Lane (Bulby-Hawthorne road) and East
Bulby, in present Bulby (TF 053 261). (5)
The moated enclosure described by authorities 2-3 was masked by trees
on air photographs and was not transcribed. There was no evidence on
air photographs of Medieval settlement along the section of Bulby-
Hawthorne Road on map TF 02 NW, as described by authority 5. However
the settlement remains documented for East Bulby, may be those
features recorded in record TF 02 NE 14. (6)
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