MONUMENT NO. 45198

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Presumed site of a castle, based on the name `Castle Hill', marked on maps of 1928-1939. The location is an improbable one and there is no supporting earthwork evidence.

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[SD 8277 1247] Site of CASTLE [GT] (1)

'Not far from thence [Castle Steads: earthwork SD 71 SE 9] at a place called "Castle Hill" there seems to have been in the feudal times a lordship of the royalty tenure, with power of imprisonment and execution of criminals. A hill just by is still called Gallows Hill'. [Not mentioned in VCH] (2)

No evidence of earthworks or of extant remains, are visible in the vicinity of the published site. The alleged position seems a most improbable one, in that it is situated part way down a hill side in a very vulnerable site. Mr A Taylor of Castle Hill Farm stated that he has ploughed over the area for many years and has never found any trace of foundations or other indicative material. (3)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1928-39

( 2) General reference

Description of the Country round Manchester, 1795, 269 (J.Aiken)

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 RL 07-JUN-61

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