Monument record 193/1 - Stapeley Hall

The now filled and previously badly mutilated moated manor house of Stapeley Hall. Mentioned as early as c.1228 as a moated messuage and described as a fair house and demesne home of the Rope family in c.1625 (1).

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, Waggott T 1964 SJ65SE7 (Index). SCH2487.

<2> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 3/494-7 1882 (Book). SCH1389.

<3> Chester Courant, 1878-1990, The Cheshire Sheaf, 2/31 1923 (Newspaper-Magazine). SCH3105.

<4> King, D, Streater, J, Crew, R, Chaloner, J, Lee, S, Webb, W, Smith, W, 1656, The Vale-Royall of England, or, The County Palatine of Chester Illustrated (Book). SCH3248.

<5> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ6750, 1876 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.