The Gatehouse website record for Kippax Manor Garth Hill

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Manor Hall Garth; Cheeney Basin

In the civil parish of Garforth. In the historic county of Yorkshire West Riding (Modern Authority of Leeds, 1974 county of West Yorkshire).

Medieval motte surviving as an earthwork is visible as an earthwork on air photographs. A Roman glass bottle was found here in 1865. The motte is from 9 to 15 feet above the ditch and there is still a breastwork of earth containing walling around the top. The motte is 100 feet in diameter. There are remains of a bailey. The earthwork is scheduled. (PastScape)
Kippax: Manor Garth Hill - The motte is rather low varying from nine to fifteen feet above the ditch, but seems to be of its original height, as it still retains a breastwork of earth round the top. There are signs of a wall under this breastwork. The diameter of the top is 100 ft. One ditch has been filled up; there are projections to the west of the hill as though a sort of low and broad terrace had been made there. There are signs that the bailey lay to the east in land now annexed to the churchyard, but its area cannot be determined. The site is not specially defensible, ... Kippax was a demesne manor of Ilbert de Laci at Domesday. In 1258 it was held of the King in chief as a baron (Yorks Inq (Yorks Rec.Ser), i, 63). (PastScape–ref VCH, 1912)
Ring-motte close to Norman church, clearly original a revetted segmented bank around some building platforms, an extension to the church yard may occupy the bailey, if this castle had one.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE417304

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This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 54694
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