Easingwold Hunting Lodge

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Esingewald

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

"Easingwold was a royal manor from the time of Domesday Book until the reign of Henry III, when it was granted first to Robert, abbot of Thorney, then to Simon de Montfort, and finally to Edmund, Earl of Lancaster. King John stayed here on at least two occasions, presumably in order to hunt in the neighbouring Forest of Galtres, and in 1217 Easingwold was included in a list of royal hunting lodges which were to be entrusted to the chief justice of the forest. No reference to the repair of the buildings during the period when the manor was in royal possession have, however, been found in the Chancery or Exchequer rolls."(HKW). This was probably the site occupied by a moated manor house with fishponds which was demolished in 1835. The moat and ponds have been levelled. The North Yorkshire HER records a fair amount of medieval activity in the area including a lime kiln and pottery kilns demonstrating how such a high status site, even one as small as this, could generate local industry, trade and income.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE5295370183

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 57013
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is MNY18091 '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
  • Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p925
    Page, Wm (ed), 1923, VCH York, North Riding Vol2 p129 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64624
    Whellan, T., 1857, History and topography of the city of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire (T Whellan and Co) Vol2 p603-4
• Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls (1217-25) p124-5