The Gatehouse website record for Hunsingore Hall

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

The remains of a medieval hall located on a raised river terrace overlooking the River Nidd at the southern end of the village of Hunsingmore. The monument occupies a knoll, the south and west sides formed by the natural lie of the land and the east side formed by a deep hollow way. The knoll has steep sides and a flat top which measures 80m by 60m. The foundations of the medieval hall survive as a sub-rectangular shaped earthwork up to 1.5m high in the centre of the site. The hall is thought to have been built on the site of an earlier defensive earthwork or motte commanding the ancient river crossing. Little is known of the early history of the monument. The manor of Hunsingore was granted to the Knights Templar preceptory at nearby Ribston in 1217 and it may be that the earliest defensive site was a castrum of the order.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE42855317

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 55147
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is MNY18175 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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