Watlington Manor House

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Watlyngton

In the civil parish of Watlington.
In the historic county of Oxfordshire (Modern Authority of Oxfordshire, 1974 county of Oxfordshire).

Site of a manor house, possibly fortified after 1338 as a licence to crenellate was granted in that year. The manor house is first recorded in a document of circa 1250 and had probably been demolished by the early C17. A moat was documented in 1442 but no trace of one survives.

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Nothing visible remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU68559479

PastScape number; 242004

Books

Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of The Thames Valley and The Chilterns (Malvern) p79
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p387
Lobel, Mary D. (ed), 1964, VCH Oxfordshire Vol8 p211
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Potts, W., 1907, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Oxfordshire Vol2 p330
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p412
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1853, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol2 p268

Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)

Calendar of Patent Rolls (1338-40) p24

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Watlington Manor House

Site of a manor house, possibly fortified after 1338 as a licence to crenellate was granted in that year. The manor house is first recorded in a document of circa 1250 and had probably been demolished by the early C17. A moat was documented in 1442 but no trace of one survives.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SU68559479

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