Moulton Castle Hill
Has been described as a Possible Timber Castle (Other/Unknown), and also as a Possible Fortified Manor House
There are no visible remains
Name | Moulton Castle Hill |
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Historic Country | Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough |
Modern Authority | Northamptonshire |
1974 Authority | Northamptonshire |
Civil Parish | Moulton |
Manor House Site (?) (SP 78606715), 1 km. N.E. of the church on the N. side of a valley, on clay at 114 m. above OD. The area is traditionally known as Castle Hill and is said to be the site of the manor house of the Fitz John family who are known to have held land in Moulton in the 13th century (VCH Northants., IV (1937), 88–90). Bridges writing in c. 1720, said that foundations of buildings had been dug up and that there were traces of a moat (J. Bridges, Hist. of Northants., I (1791), 419).
The remains lie on a small, natural, almost circular knoll. On air photographs taken in 1946 (RAF VAP 3G/TUD/UK 118, 6224–5) most of the knoll was already under cultivation and only a wedge-shaped area of land remained intact. Within this, standing on the summit, was a V-shaped bank with its apex to the N., with a large depression or pit to the S. and what appear to have been rectangular platforms below it. These have been totally destroyed by modern ploughing and only the depression, 25 m.–30 m. across and up to 2 m. deep, survives. The surrounding area is very stony and there are patches of dark earth. A few sherds of medieval pottery have been discovered there. (RCHME)
Not scheduled
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid Reference | SP786671 |
Latitude | 52.2968597412109 |
Longitude | -0.848850011825562 |
Eastings | 478600 |
Northings | 267150 |