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HHER Number:	829
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	THE MANOR OF THE MORE, MOOR PARK, RICKMANSWORTH

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:	TQ 082 940
Map Sheet:	TQ09SE
Parish:	Rickmansworth
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Monument Types

MANOR HOUSE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Events

Watching brief at Manor of the More (Northwood Sports Hall), Rickmansworth (Ref: No 173)
Trial trenching at Northwood Preparatory School, Moor Farm

Protected Status

Area of Archaeological Significance 15

Full description

A major manorial site partly excavated in the 1950s <1, 4>; for the moats, see [826]. The manor belonged to St Albans Abbey; the estate may have been given to the abbey at its foundation in 793, but is not recorded by name until 1182, when the Abbot gave it to Adam Aignel in exchange for land in Bucks. The double moated enclosure belonged to the initial period of occupation found by <1> (c1250-1300), followed by a kitchen building with three ovens (c1300-1350). Traces of a house associated with these earlier periods have not been located. After the collapse of the kitchen a typical 14C manor house was built (c1350-1426); this was replaced in the 15C by a much grander building. See [10919].

Sources and further reading

---	Article in serial: Falvey, Heather. 1992. The More: archbishop George Neville's palace in Rickmansworth, Herts; The Ricardian vol.IX no.118 (Sept 1992), 290-301.
---	Unpublished document: Cave-Penny, Helena (HCC) site report. 12.12.85
---	Index: OS Records.
---	Article in serial: Braun, Hugh. 1936. The castle of More; Trans St Albans Archit & Archaeol Soc for 1936, 38-41.
---	Article in serial: Castle, Stephen. 1971. Archaeological survey of south west Hertfordshire; Watford & SW Herts Archaeol Soc Bull 14 (autumn 1971), 1-11.
---	Scheduling record: Scheduled Monument description.
<1>	Article in serial: Biddle, Martin, Barfield, Lawrence, & Millard, Alan. 1959. The excavation of the Manor of the More, Rickmansworth, Herts; Archaeological Journal 116, 136-99.
<2>	Report: Erika Guttmann. 1996. Manor of the More, Northwood Sports Hall, Rickmansworth; observation and recording. watching brief. RNO 158
<3>	Report: Hester Cooper-Reade. 1991. Northwood Preparatory School, Moor Farm, junior school site; an archaeological evaluation. RNO 166
<4>	Article in serial: Heather Falvey. 1993. The More: Rickmansworth's lost palace; Herts Past 34 (spring 1993), 3-16.
<5>	Bibliographic reference: Smith, J T. 1993. Hertfordshire houses: selective inventory. p148

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