Walks in Sussex: Pulborough's Mystery Moat
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Today I meet up with Richard Suggett, born and bred in Pulborough, West Sussex. He takes around his childhood playground, the moat on the hill, the scheduled monument where once stood a manor house. It burnt down in 1200 and a second manor house was erected a little to the north.
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Fascinating, really interesting, and Richard S knows his stuff. I want to visit this site and see it for real, I am inspired!
Richard, Doing a little research after watching the prog. I learned some fascinating bits about New Place Manor, which as you know replaced the first manor that was on the moated site~ It was built by Alard le Fleming in 1252, after his other house accidently burned down and although no mention of why he chose to move his new house from the original location , there is this lovely footnote in the recorded history "1251-2 The king gives license to Alard le Fleming to rebuild his houses, accidentally burnt in his park of PULBOROUGH, where his ancestors used formerly to dwell without 'krenellating". (and apparently King Edward the second did actually " visited "Neubrigge," in the parish of Pulborough, belonging to Alard le Fleming, in Sept of 1324 ) Also discovered a very fascinating assortment of subsequent owners of New Place too, which I feel sure you would find of interest. It would be potentially very interesting if a little dig might be implemented to just see what artifacts might still lie under the ground on the site of the original manor as it did contain extensive outbuildings for all the usual things that high status manors would have possessed at that time. Alard apparently also owned a manor in Gloucestershire as well.
Wow - thanks for this. Richard Suggett is on the Live Show tonight - so this will be something we can discuss for sure. Thanks for doing the digging on this curious subject! :)
My pleasure. Too bad I could not find more but if Richard S. is at all interested in some of the fascinating owners of New Place Manor over the years , I could email you or him, whatever would be easiest ~ i.e For a few years in the late 1960s, New Place was owned by Count William de Belleroch, an eccentric American who had a penchant for dressing up as Henry VIII and parading up and down the gallery of the 15th-century reception hall. The house had quite a reputation locally for wild parties. "
Good Heavens - how interesting! Dressing up as Henry VIII - love it. Do email to me and I will email to him! I would be fascinated to read it myself :) richard at vobes dot com
Looks like new place manor was on the market recently!
www.onthemarket.com/details/3646722/
Yes of course will email you and maybe Richard S might find something of interest there, even if it does not answer his question of why the house was moved~ at least now we know ,the fire was apparently due to an accident anyway.
Very interesting & fascinating vid on an old motte. What a wonderful discovery! Loved reading what info your other subscribers found on it. Hope Richard S. got the answers he was looking for!!!
I never knew this was here how interesting. Often, sites were scheduled by the virtue that they are were likely to be of national historical importance; without actually knowing the exact nature of the archeology. I would suggest English Heritage might have more information? I say "bring bck time team!".... I will visit this site myself it looks enormous. The Motte and Bailey is extemely impressive;!
J Bradshaw Its worth a visit. I shall take a walk around the Pulborough Motte and Bailey too soon.
My great grandmother Sarah Frances Goacher was born at Pulborough.
Good place to be born.
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The moat could I suppose have been a wet one if it were "puddled" with clay like the Sussex dewponds... another great film Richard...Thanks...
Yes, I thought that and easily supplied with water because the land rises another thirty feet to the north and there were little drainage streams trickling down.
There are some theories these days that suggest that medieval moated enclosures were founded on much earlier prehistoric moated enclosures...possibly used for the same purposes, as in to keep inhabitants and their live stock safe from attack, but in earlier times attack could have as likely been from wild animals such as wolves and bears, in which case there would likely have been a wooden palisade erected all the way along the inner bank of the ditch, so as to keep the beasts out.
I like to imagine these enclosures were something like Asterix's village ...(yes, I know..but still it's based on some real stuff after all!)
Interesting, and not unrealistic rally. Survival is an important thing.
It took some searching (historic England’s website is cumbersome) but here’s the designation information...
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1013178
I’m surprised that I can’t find any archaeological surveys for the Manor House...
(Another excellent video too!)
Thanks Mr Great Plum :)
Would have been an easy one for Time Team :-)
Yep probably - they do have a budget too! :)