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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 →
Saltby is a medieval monastic grange located in Leicestershire, comprising earthwork remains of an agricultural settlement associated with monastic landholding. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009165.
Medieval monastic grange with building platforms and dovecote at Saltby is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1009165.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including King Lud's Intrenchments and adjacent barrow (2.1 km), Anglo-Scandinavian cross, St Bartholomew's churchyard (2.2 km), Five barrows NW of Heath Farm (4.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Medieval monastic grange with building platforms and dovecote at Saltby's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Medieval monastic grange with building platforms and dovecote at Saltby stands on Inferior Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.