Campsall Campsmount place-name

Has been described as a Questionable Uncertain

There are no visible remains

NameCampsall Campsmount place-name
Alternative Names
Historic CountryYorkshire
Modern AuthorityDoncaster
1974 AuthoritySouth Yorkshire
Civil ParishNorton

The name CAMPSMOUNT (eg Campsmount House, Home Farm SE536142) may associate with location of a lost earlier defensive site. (Sneyd 1995)

Gatehouse Comments

'Mounts' or mounds are not uncommon and relatively few are defensive; most are natural and the artificial mounds are mainly funeral barrows. However some mounds were built as symbols of political authority as moot mounds - the best known of these are Hundred moots but forest swain-moots courts may have been marked by mounds and this may be the case here. Campsall was in the relatively small Barnsdale Forest. The name may refer to a now lost mound or be a corruption of moot referring to the site of a swain-moot court not necessarily marked by a mound.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSE536142
Latitude53.6202697753906
Longitude-1.18742895126343
Eastings453600
Northings414200
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Books

  • Sneyd, Steve, 1995, The Devil's Logbook Castles and Fortified Sites around South Yorkshire (Hilltop Press) p. 9