Rodbaston Old Hall

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Rembaudeston; Cannock Chase; Cannock Forest; Mott Place; Roundabout; Grimbaudeston

In the civil parish of Penkridge.
In the historic county of Staffordshire (Modern Authority of Staffordshire, 1974 county of Staffordshire).

Medieval moat (originally double but outer moat now infilled) and fishponds (probably two) of crenellated house built in 1330's, surviving as earthworks. Possible site of a fortified manor of hereditary forester of Cannock mentioned in 1154 and 1215. This is sometimes identified with the royal 'castle' of Cannock but nothing in the tenurial history would support this suggestion and the royal castle, a hunting lodge, was probably Castle Ring (qv)

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Earthworks remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SJ92131238

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 77207

Books

Salter, Mike, 1997, Castles and Moated Mansions of Staffordshire (Malvern) p40
Salter, Mike, 1993, Midlands Castles (Birmingham) p65
Midgley, L.M. (ed), 1986, VCH Staffordshire Vol5 p120-2
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p452
Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker)
Greenslade, M.W., 1967, in Greenslade, M.W. and Jenkins, J.G. (eds), VCH Staffordshire Vol2 p338- [for history of Cannock Forest and Foresters]
Greenslade, M.W. and Midgley, L.M., 1959 in Midgley, L.M. (ed), VCH Staffordshire Vol5 p120-2 - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=53403
Lynam, C., 1908, in Page, Wm. (ed), VCH Staffordshire Vol1 p365

Journal Articles

1983, Moated Sites Research Group report Vol10 p31
Larkham, P.J., 1982-3, Transactions of the South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol24 p15-46
Palliser, D.M., 1972, 'Staffordshire Castles: A Provisional List' Staffordshire Archaeology Vol1 p5-8
Cantor, Leonard, 1966, 'The Medieval Castles of Staffordshire' North Staffordshire Journal of Field Studies Vol6 p38-46
Brown, R, Allen, 1959, 'A List of Castles, 1154–1216' English Historical Review Vol74 [Reprinted in Brown, R. Allen, 1989, Castles, conquest and charters: collected papers (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p249-280]
1923, William Salt Archaeological Society Vol47 p29

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