More information : (SK 891123). Alsthorpe was at one time a separate
hamlet from Burley. Chapel Farm suggests the site for in 1312
there was a chapel at Alsthorpe which Nicholas de Segrave gave
land to. In 1652 locality and name seem to have disappeared but
land is probably identifiable with Ostroppe field and Farre
Ostroppe Close, which in the same year were connected with the
sale of the manor. (1)
Alsthorpe was a Domesday village included with Burley in tax
lists. (2)
Very faint traces of a possible DMV are visible on RAF AP's in
the area of Chapel Farm, but these have been identified with a
settlement connected with the Motte 'Mount Alstoe' (see SK 81 SE 2).
(3)
Rig and furrow and some disturbance occupy the site but there is
nothing to indicate desertion. Two outbuildings at Chapel Farm
have ecclesiastical windows which could date from the early
1300s. The building at SK 89131230 seems to be much earlier
than the rest which probably dates from the 18th century. (4)
Scheduled. (5)
Scheduled monuments, previously Leic 165 (see SK 81 SE 2) and 169, now combined under new title and monument number, Leic 169. (6)
Alstoe Moot, (see SK 81 SE 2), and part of Alsthorpe deserted village.
On the southern and western sides of the moot mound are two straight ditches, 8.0m wide and 1.5m deep, which appear to mark the edges of adjacent enclosures. Adjacent to the mound are a series of house platforms and garden plots located on either side of a hollow way which is aligned N-S. Excavations of the moot and the ditches show them to be Saxon and contemporary. The site is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and there is documentary reference to a large 'green' ditch next to 'Altiechestowe' in 1207. The village may have Saxon origins but was certainly occupied from the Norman period until the C15 or C16.
Scheduled (RSM) No. 17009. (7) |