Boltby Manorial Complex (Boltby) | ruins, earthworks, ghost town

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A probable medieval manorial complex surviving as earthworks in paddocks on the northern edge of the village of Boltby. The principal earthwork remains are a fairly well preserved square moat-like enclosure with a sub-rectangular fishpond attached to it. These lie within an embanked oval enclosure of some 2ha, which appears to have been laid out over ridge and furrow. A scatter of sherds of medieval pottery, ranging from the 13th to the 16th centuries, have been recovered from within the enclosure. Documentary research suggests that the complex may represent the manor house of the de Boltby family, first mentioned c1131. However, the most influential member of the family, Eva de Boltby, who is widely mentioned between 1274 and 1316, evidently lived in a large manor house at nearby Ravensthorpe. This suggests that by that date the supposed house at Boltby, which is not explicitly menttioned in the doscumentary sources, was already regarded as being of lesser importance.

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