Construction work at the idyllic eighteenth century Strelley Hall led to the chance discovery of the remains of a much older precursor. The fourteenth century fortified manor of the de Strelley family lay beneath and as excavations proceeded a huge rock-cut moat became visible for the first time since it was filled in after a catastrophic fire in the … Continue reading “This Manor hath been the inheritance of lawyers” Excavating a lost Mediaeval fortified manor house at Strelley Hall, Nottinghamshire