Rugby Hall Place

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Hawle Place; Sir Henry Rokebye's castle

In the civil parish of Rugby.
In the historic county of Warwickshire (Modern Authority of Warwickshire, 1974 county of Warwickshire).

'There was a little castle at Rugby which stood about a furlong (200m) to the N of the church. The banks of earth and part of the moat still remain.' Dugdale believed that it was built at the time of King Stephen. The inhabitants call it by tradition Sir Henry Rokebye's castle. Norman spur found 60 years ago on the site of the moated area in the field behind in church Street. The moat represents the early Medieval manor house of Rugby. Chatwin suggests that this was an Adulterine Castle. The remains of earthworks and a moat. Leland c1545 records the earthworks and the name 'Hawle Place'. It is likely to have been a moated manor house from the remains shown on the 6" OS map of 1885. The site is now built over.

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

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP50417548

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 340093

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 3345

• Web site links
  • http://timetrail.warwickshire.gov.uk/detail.aspx?monuid=WA3345
• Books
  • Salter, Mike, 1992, Castles and Moated Mansions of Warwickshire (Malvern) p43
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p486 [possible]
    Salzman, L.F. (ed), 1951 VCH Warwickshire Vol6 p147, 203
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
    Dugdale, William (2edn rev by Wm Thomas), 1730, The Antiquities of Warwickshire (London) Vol2 p1056
• Journal Articles
  • Chatwin, P.B., 1947-8, 'Castles in Warwickshire' Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society Vol67 p23-4
    Bloxam M H., 1885, RSNHS (Rugby School Natural History Society?)
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p477