Site of medieval moated manor, 'Pudsey Hall', Pudsey Hall Farm (EHER 13491)

Now destroyed. The site of a medieval moated manor house which is thought to be the Domesday manor of Pudsey. It is reported that the old manor house was demolished and the moat levelled in around 1969. The 1777 Chapman and Andre map shows the hall complex set in a garden with an outer yard and at least five probable barns.

Pudsey Hall was a Domesday manor with an associated moat. It is reported that the old manor house was demolished and the moat levelled in around 1969. <1> The first part of 'Pudsey' is the personal name 'Pud' and the second part may derive from an older word meaning 'landing place', but the hall is some distance from the River Crouch. A small stream nearby may have once been navigable. <2> Pudsey consisted of a group of four small manorial holdings in 1066 and 1086, one of which was probably centred on the site of Pudsey Hall itself. Pudsey Hall was held by the 'de Veres', Earls of Oxford, in 1322. The site comprised a manor house with associated moat and farm buildings. The 1777 Chapman and André map shows the hall complex as a building with a central hall and two projecting wings set in a garden/orchard area, with an outer yard area with at least five further buildings, presumably barns etc. The buildings were demolished and the moat levelled in around 1969. <3> <4> See also <5> and <6>.