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Balne East Manor Farm Moat

Has been described as a Questionable Fortified Manor House

There are no visible remains

Name	Balne East Manor Farm Moat
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Yorkshire
Modern Authority	North Yorkshire
1974 Authority	North Yorkshire
Civil Parish	Balne

Balne - moats at SE608183 (Le Pat. just W.Balne Hall. She notes late 13thC. ref.), and at SE584193 just N. YEWTREE FARM. W. arm, shorter stretch E. arm, still waterholding, also at PARKSHAW WOOD, N. the intriguingly-named Chapel Garth Wood, WNW Wood Farm. Rectangular (N-S) platform enclosed water-holding moat with hooked arm to W. from SW corner, and isolated straight pond to N. of this, indicative of 2nd enclosure - SE584182 and (Le Pat.) SE581177 E. MANOR FARM, just SW of Chapel Garth Wood. One of these Vernoille Manor of Methams (Le Pat.). (Sneyd 1995)

SE 581177. Balne. The supposed siting of a medieval moat. (Not visible on OS 6" 1853 or on APs. Only a small pond east of Manor Farm (SE 51 NE/5) at SE 57861770 is visible) (Le Patourel 1973). (PastScape)

Gatehouse Comments

If there was a moat at this small sub-manor house, and it is likely there was, it was in an area where flooding must have been a seasonal problem so probably more about water management than defense.(Gatehouse has not been able to identify this as a medieval manor - the manor house seems to have been Balne Hall.)

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)

56037
56046

County Historic Environment Record

www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MNY9788&resourceID=1009

OS Map Grid Reference	SE581077
Latitude	53.6520690917969
Longitude	-1.12497997283936
Eastings	458010
Northings	417720