Burstwick Hall Garth (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Burstwick Castle

In the civil parish of Burstwick.
In the historic county of Yorkshire.
Modern Authority of East Riding of Yorkshire.
1974 county of Humberside.
Medieval County of Yorkshire East Riding.

OS Map Grid Reference: TA22052901
Latitude 53.74319° Longitude -0.15084°

Burstwick Hall Garth has been described as a certain Palace, and also as a probable Fortified Manor House.

There are earthwork remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

Description

A nearly square moat, said to be the site of Burstwick castle, may have surrounded the old house. The sites of two or more fishponds lie to the south of the moat (Poulson). Burstwick was one of the most important Royal manors in the north during the first half of the 14th century. The manor escheated to the Crown as part of the inheritance of Aveline de Forz in 1274. The residence, situated at Hall Garth was evidently built round a courtyard with inner and outer gatehouses together with chapels, a dovecote and a windmill, also a garden and two parks, the N park having a moated lodge with hall and chapel. There are records of maintenance from 1277 to 1354; the ditches and fish ponds were constructed in 1294 (Brown). (PastScape)

Caput baronie of Albemarle fee, on slight rise. One of the most important royal manors in the north during the first half of C14. Buildings, largely of timber, included two chapels, hall, chambers, etc. Moat added to existing house in 1291. (Le Patourel)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Scheduled Monument Number 1003467, Legacy Scheduled Monument Number er137
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 81692.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 733.

Books
- Ingham, Bernard, 2001, Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman) p. 17-18
  Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales Vol. 1 Northern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p. 320
  Williams, Alison, 1996, 'Castles and moated sites' in Neave, Susan and Ellis, Stephen, An Historical Atlas of East Yorkshire (University of Hull Press) p. 32-3
  Neave, Susan, 1991, Medieval Parks of East Yorkshire (Univeristy of Hull) p. 23-5
  Colvin, H.M., 1986, 'Royal Gardens in Medieval England' in Elisabeth MacDougall (ed) Medieval Gardens (Washington D.C.) p. 15
  Allison, K.J. (ed), 1984, VCH Yorkshire: East Riding Vol. 5 p. 10-11
  Loughlin, Neil and Miller, Keith, 1979, A survey of archaeological sites in Humberside carried out for the Humberside Joint Archaeological Committee p. 110-11
  Le Patourel, H.E. Jean, 1973, The Moated Sites of Yorkshire (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series 5)
  Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol. 2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p. 903-5
  Illingworth, J.L., 1938 (republished 1970), Yorkshire's Ruined Castles (Wakefield) p. 543
  Poulson, G., 1841, The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness Vol. 2 p. 352- online copy
Periodical Articles
- Le Patourel, H.E. Jean, 1972, 'Moated sites of Yorkshire: a survey and its implications' Château Gaillard Vol. 5 p. 121-132
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Creighton, O.H., 1998, Castles and Landscapes: An Archaeological Survey of Yorkshire and the East Midlands (PhD Thesis University of Leicester) p. 118, 543 online copy

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