Archdeacon Newton © Ryder, P 2006


Archdeacon Newton © Ryder, P 2006


Archdeacon Newton © Ryder, P 2006


Archdeacon Newton © Ryder, P 2006

This is the site of a medieval moated site. Relatively little seems to be recorded of the history of the manor; Longstaff (1854, 279-80) mentions various families to whom the Archdeacon leased the manor in the late 16th and 17th centuries, quoting a 1570 inventory of Christopher Daill which presumably relates to the manor house and lists the Hall, the Parlour above the Hall, the Chamber over the Hall, the New Chamber, the Little Chamber, the Lofte beneath the Doors, the Buttery, the Kitchen and the Stable'.

Two of the hamlet's three farms, and a row of cottages, all lie within a complex of earthworks; the greater part of this, on the east of the approach road from Newton Lane, which runs a little to the north, is still open pasture, with evidence of house platforms and a higher triangular platform alongside Newton lane which is traditionally identified as the site of a chapel. In the south-east corner of the area is the rectangular moated site of the Archdiaconal manor house. The south-western angle of the moat, and the double moat on the east side remain visible as shallow depressions, largely infilled in the later 20th century.