Easingwold Hunting Lodge (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;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

In the civil parish of Easingwold.
In the historic county of Yorkshire.
Modern Authority of North Yorkshire.
1974 county of North Yorkshire.
Medieval County of Yorkshire North Riding.

OS Map Grid Reference: SE52957018
Latitude 54.12479° Longitude -1.19124°

Easingwold Hunting Lodge has been described as a probable Palace.

There are no visible remains.

Description

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).

Rectory House, variously called Easingwold Hall or Manor House, and belonging to the Archdeacons of Richmond, was demolished in 1835 and replaced by a new building. The only remains are the moat, garden walls, fishpond and a few very old Weymouth pines which surround the site. From 1290 to 1317 the Manor House "became very ruinous and greatly in need of repair" (Whellan). The 'new' manor house has now been demolished and the site developed for housing. There are no remains of the fishpond, nor any trace of a moat (Field Investigator, RE, 15-JUL-1973). (PastScape)

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 57013.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) MNY18091.

Books
- 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. 925
  Page, Wm (ed), 1923, VCH Yorkshire: North Riding Vol. 2 p. 129 online transcription
  Whellan, T., 1857, History and topography of the city of York and the North Riding of Yorkshire (T Whellan and Co) Vol. 2 p. 603-4 online copy
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1901, Calendar of Patent Rolls Henry III (1216-25) Vol. 1 p. 124-5 online copy

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