Medieval monastic grange with building platforms and dovecote at Saltby

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History & significance

Saltby is a medieval monastic grange located in Leicestershire, comprising earthwork remains of an agricultural settlement associated with monastic landholding. The site contains building platforms and the substantial remains of a dovecote, structures characteristic of organised monastic estate management during the medieval period. The grange functioned as an outlying farm belonging to a monastic house, where monks or lay workers cultivated demesne lands and maintained facilities such as the dovecote for both food production and protein storage. The earthwork remains visible today preserve evidence of the medieval religious economy and monastic approaches to agricultural intensification across their extensive landholdings.

Medieval monastic grange with building platforms and dovecote at Saltby is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009165. View the official record →

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