The Gatehouse website record for Lower Noverton Moat

In the civil parish of Prestbury. In the historic county of Gloucestershire (Modern Authority of Gloucestershire, 1974 county of Gloucestershire).

Site of a possible fortified manor house, visible as a complex of earthworks in 1964. This has been variously identified as the bishops palace recorded by Leland (which was more probably the site at Shaw Green (qv)) or the Prior of Llanthony's house (of which a, much modified, C14 hall house still survives, called The Priory, by the church at SO969240). The VCH suggests this was also a Prior's house, giving two houses in the parish, presumably a rectory and a private prior residence, which is a possibility. However it seems possible, to me, that this was a precussor to Hall Place built by the Baghot family in the C16. I am presuming the Baghots were, relatively wealthy, tenants of Llanthony who were able to buy the manor at the Dissolution of the Priory. It is also possibly that both stories are true with the Baghots leasing the Prior's old house.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SO976236

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This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 117679
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