Monument record 1774/1/1 - Edge Medieval Moat and Manor

<1> Turner R C, 1986, Edge - Notes on the Archaeological & Historic Landscapes (Unpublished Report). SCH1099.

Edge Hall is certainly the original centre of the medieval manor. The Dod family have owned the Edge estate since the reign of Henry II (1154-89) and the hall stood within an irregular moat.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ45SE8 (Index). SCH2487.

Edge Hall is on a moated site, the moat of which was drained in 1788. The house has been altered many times and there is reason to believe (timber inscribed H.D. 1304) that the site is at least fourteenth century in date. Includes survey of the moat.

<3> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol.II p.684 (Book). SCH1389.

The present mansion is of considerable antiquity, but has been so repeatedly altered in various styles, that no date can be inferred from its architecture. This house has also been moated, and stands very low, the ground sloping to it in almost every direction.

<4> Hartwell C, Hyde M, Hubbard E & Pevsner N, 2011, The Buildings of England: Cheshire (2011 revision), p.639 (Book). SCH7059.

The house was tightly moated until the eighteenth century. It was originally a H shaped timber framed building with extra gables. Part of an nineteenth century service wing stood on the moat.