Camel Manor

In the civil parish of Queen Camel.
In the historic county of Somerset (Modern Authority of Somerset, 1974 county of Somerset).

Royal residential manor at time of Henry III. Surrendered by Hubert de Burgh to Henry III in 1228, who then spent £163 13s 2d on building a residential hall before returning the manor to Hubert five years later. This is tentatively linked to small moat in Coages Park (Ref given) which is described as a hunting lodge. PastScape dates this as C16 but SMR gives no date.

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

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is ST59052635

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; 196335

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 54436, 54435

Books

James, T.B., 1990, The palaces of medieval England p66 [shown on map, no descriptive text]
Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p907

Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)

Turner, B., 1995, A deserted medieval landscape at Queen Camel, Somerset (unpubl University of Manchester dissertation)

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