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The Old Manor House, Cretingsbury is a motte and bailey castle with associated moated manor house situated in Huntingdonshire, England. The motte, a substantial earthwork mound, represents the defensive core of the Norman settlement established in this location during the medieval period. The site retains evidence of its moated enclosure, characteristic of high-status medieval domestic occupation, indicating that the fortified settlement later developed into a manorial residence. The physical remains provide archaeological testimony to the transition from early Norman military fortification to the established manorial landscape of medieval England.
The Old Manor House, Cretingsbury: a motte castle and moated manor house is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009590. View the official record →
The Old Manor House, Cretingsbury is a motte and bailey castle with associated moated manor house situated in Huntingdonshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009590.
The Old Manor House, Cretingsbury: a motte castle and moated manor house 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 1009590.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Manor Farm Iron Age univallate hillfort and medieval moated enclosure. (4.4 km), Manor Farm moated enclosure, fishponds and fowling earthworks (4.8 km), Greensbury Farm moated site (5.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of The Old Manor House, Cretingsbury: a motte castle and moated manor house's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
The Old Manor House, Cretingsbury: a motte castle and moated manor house stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.