Embleton Moat
Has been described as a Possible Fortified Manor House
There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains
| Name | Embleton Moat |
| Alternative Names | Hallgarth |
| Historic Country | Cumberland |
| Modern Authority | Cumbria |
| 1974 Authority | Cumbria |
| Civil Parish | Embleton |
Some six or seven hundred yards SW of Embleton Vicarage are the remains of a moat. The west side of 126 feet, and short return lengths at each end remaining. There is a rampart external to the ditch (Curwen, 1913). Ploughing has reduced the remainder to a mere ground swelling only. (Field Investigators Comments F1 RL 18-APR-66). Site has been filled in with black debris and covered with earth, (by appearance within last two or three weeks). Only about 3m. N. end of a moat extant (Letter (TC Welsh)AO/W 1.7.74). (PastScape)
Thomas de Lucy, the feudal superior, had granted Thomas de Ireby, lord of Embleton, licence to enclose a park c.1285, in exchange for the right to take two deer from it each year (Wilson 1915, 568-9). How long the park continued to contain game is unclear: the inquisition after de Ireby's death in 1308 merely refers to a 'close', valued as herbade (TNA:PRO C 134/2/10). It may thus have already lost its identity as a park by 1322 when almost half of the houses in Embleton were burnt in the Scottish raid of that year (TNA:PRO C 134/75/7). The park had disappeared as a landscape feature by the post-medieval centuries, no hint of a park pale surviving in the field pattern. Its location can, however, be reconstructed from nineteenth-century field names containing the element 'Park', which form a block stretching south west-west from the site of the manor house (which survives as an earthwork in a field named 'Hallgarth'). (Winchester, 2007, p. 182-3)
Not scheduled
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | NY154291 |
| Latitude | 54.6503486633301 |
| Longitude | -3.31140995025635 |
| Eastings | 315480 |
| Northings | 529150 |
