More information : TF 1106 0535 APs show a motte and bailey with adjacent steadings.(1)
Torpol manor is first mentioned in 1198 (3) and a hamlet is noted in 1276. No village tenants are listed in 1605 (2). The situation of the village and castle are confirmed on a late C16 map. (4) Manorial history (3)
An earthworks complex comprising a Ring motte with double bailey and adjacent amorphous remains of desertion. Surveyed at 1/2500 (5)
This appears to be the site of a manor house with adjoining
enclosures. It occupies a roughly rectangular field of about four
hectares and is surrounded by a bank up to 1.0m high. A break in the bank on the west side may be recent, but the entrance on the eastern side is probably original.(6)
Fragments of Medieval pottery, including Stamford ware, have been found in adjacent fields.
TF 1106 0535 Ring & Bailey (NR) (7)
TF 1105 0543 Torpel Manor. In a field lying at the end of West Road, Helpstone, but actually in Bainton parish are a series of earthworks which have been identified as being the site of Torpel Manor. The Central Electricity Authority in laying out a new line placed a pylon on part of the site. The four bases cut into a platform on which lies the earth covered remains of a long building which was found to be of stone. The pottery recovered during rescue work seems to indicate that by the 12th century occupation was established and that as far as this single building is concerned there was probably no occupation after some point in the 14th century. There was a little 16th and 17th century material which may represent activity on another part of the site (8) |