1 The Domesday book records a priest and a substantial peasant population. C14 documents indicate that the population was still fairly high. The Lay Subsidy of 1428 records only 4 ...
The deserted Medieval settlement of Billesley Trussel. House platforms, hollow ways, enclosures and ridge and furrow cultivation are still visible as earthworks. The settlement is also known from documentary evidence. It is situated to the east of Billesley Hall.
1 S of the church is a moat of which three sides containing water still remain. The inner faces of the arms retain rubble walling and there are traces of ...
A Medieval moat, a wide ditch usually surrounding a building. The moat survives as an earthwork and it lies 100m to the south of the church at Billesley.
Earthworks of Post Medieval fishponds.
1 In the lawn S of the house is a circular fishpond, and away to the S are the remains of a former moat.
2 The ‘moat’ ...
Fishponds which were used for breeding and storing fish. They are Post Medieval in date and are visible as earthworks. The fish ponds lie 100m to the south of Billesley Hall.
