A moot hall is a meeting or assembly building, traditionally to decide local issues.[1]
In Anglo-Saxon England, a low ring-shaped earthwork served as a moot hill or moot mound, where the elders of the hundred would meet to take decisions. Some of these acquired permanent buildings, known as moot halls.[2]
Surviving moot halls include:
- Moot Hall, Aldeburgh
- Moot Hall, Appleby
- Moot Hall, Brampton
- Moot Hall, Daventry
- Moot Hall, Elstow
- Moot Hall, Hexham
- Moot Hall, Holton le Moor
- Moot Hall, Keswick
- Moot Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Moot Hall, Newark-on-Trent
- Moot Hall, Maldon
- Moot Hall, Mansfield
- Moot Hall, St Albans
- Moot Hall, Steeple Bumpstead
- Moot Hall, Wirksworth
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. G. & C. Merriam. 1913.
- ^ The Columbian Cyclopedia. Vol. 20. 1897.
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