Camel Manor

In the civil parish of Queen Camel. In the historic county of Somerset (Modern Authority of Somerset, 1974 county of Somerset).

Royal residential manor at time of Henry III. Surrendered by Hubert de Burgh to Henry III in 1228, who then spent £163 13s 2d on building a residential hall before returning the manor to Hubert five years later. This is tentatively linked to small moat in Coages Park (Ref given) which is described as a hunting lodge. PastScape dates this as C16 but SMR gives no date.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is ST59052635

Air Photo from Air Photo and general mapping	1st edition OS Map from Mid to late 19th century maps
Modern Map from Landscape form and features	Modern Map from General location and route planning
Geograph British Isles occasionally has photos of the site and will usually give an idea of the surrounding landscape.

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 196335
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 54436; 54435 '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.

• Books
  • James, T.B., 1990, The palaces of medieval England p66 [shown on map, no descriptive text]
    Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p907
• Other sources, 'grey' literature, unpublished works, etc. (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
  • Turner, B., 1995, A deserted medieval landscape at Queen Camel, Somerset (unpubl University of Manchester dissertation)