The Gatehouse website record for Brierley Hallsteads

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Hall Steads; Grimethorpe; Willow Garth

In the civil parish of Brierley. In the historic county of Yorkshire West Riding (Modern Authority of Barnsley, 1974 county of South Yorkshire).

Remains of medieval moated site, still visible as an earthwork. The hillside within the moat has been scarped to create a roughly circular inner enclosure. This once carried a stone wall, described as having been 4 or 5ft thick. A line of fishponds run eastwards from the northern arm of the moat. A manor house is known to have stood on this site, but no upstanding building remains survive. This may be the site of the house for which a licence to crenellate was granted in 1479 to a John Harrington. King rejects writing 'Tends to be accepted as M&B. In fact the site of manor house is a natural hillock with only slight signs of artificial earthworks'.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE42080934

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 54067
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