Monument record 1976/1/1 - Belgrave

<1> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Ormerod G 1882 2/838 (Book). SCH1389.

Moated Manor of Belgrave. Probably one of the two manors into which the Saxon vill of Etore was divided

<2> Dodgson J McN, 1970-2, 1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire, vol.4/p.149-150 (Y) (Book). SCH3228.

Name first appears as Belgreve c.1290

<3> Turner R C & Sale C B, 1986, A Medieval Garden at the Belgrave Moat, Cheshire, Vol 69 1986, 59-77. Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society (Article in Journal). SCH100.

Estate possibly created by grant or purchase from the surrounding manors. Grants in 1281 and 1295. Created by Richard the Engineer or Lenginour, one of Edward I's leading military engineers. First mention of house at Belgrave in 1309 when the son of Richard the Engineer was given the messuage of Belgreve. Manor passed through the hands of the de Pulfords to the de Belgreves in 1340. By 1403 manor held by Sir Richard Veneables of Kinneton. At end of C15 and into C16, the Grosvenors and the Leghs leased the manor. None of these families had their principal residence at Belgrave. By early C17 it had become part of the Eaton Estate and was principally used as a coppice woodland

<4> English Heritage, Various, Schedule Entry (Scheduled Ancient Monuments Amendment), 13462 (Scheduling Record). SCH2950.

<6> Cheshire Historic Environment Record, 1989, Jill Collens' Aerial Photographs, 6.0500 - 6.0502, 6.0573-4 (Aerial Photograph). SCH9711.