The Gatehouse website record for Mere Castle

In the civil parish of Mere. In the historic county of Cheshire (Modern Authority of Cheshire, 1974 county of Cheshire).

Leland records 'The ditches and the plot where the castle of Mere stood' The only existing feature in the parish of Mere is Hough Hall recorded in PastScape as 'A moat with a platform roughly 30m square and a ditch 12-14m on three sides, now dry, but water-filled until 1938. A very wide ditch and arm 19-24m wide on the North-West side appears to be a fishpond. Ridge and furrow runs from the South-East to the North-West over the entire moat.'
My association of this site with Leland's report has not been taken up by other authors and is weak. The general location and the site itself are that of a homestead moat of moderate social status. Leland may have been referring to another, now lost, site or this site had been given a grandiose 'history'.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SJ72168335

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 74937
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 1273/1/1 '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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