Easingwold Hunting Lodge

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Esingewald

In the civil parish of Easingwold.
In the historic county of Yorkshire North Riding (Modern Authority of North Yorkshire, 1974 county of North Yorkshire).

"Easingwold was a royal manor from the time of Domesday Book until the reign of Henry III, when it was granted first to Robert, abbot of Thorney, then to Simon de Montfort, and finally to Edmund, Earl of Lancaster. King John stayed here on at least two occasions, presumably in order to hunt in the neighbouring Forest of Galtres, and in 1217 Easingwold was included in a list of royal hunting lodges which were to be entrusted to the chief justice of the forest. No reference to the repair of the buildings during the period when the manor was in royal possession have, however, been found in the Chancery or Exchequer rolls."(HKW). This was probably the site occupied by a moated manor house with fishponds which was demolished in 1835. The moat and ponds have been levelled.

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

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SE5295370183

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

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