Moot hall

A moot hall is a meeting or assembly building, traditionally to decide local issues.

In Anglo-Saxon England, a low ring-shaped earthwork served as a moot hill or moot mound, where the elders of the hundred would meet to take decisions. Some of these acquired permanent buildings, known as moot halls. However, many moot halls are on relatively new sites within later settlements.

The Moot Hall in Aldeburgh Suffolk

Sundial on Moot Hall, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England.

• There are moot halls in:
  • Aldeburgh
  • Appleby-in-Westmorland
  • Brampton
  • Colchester
  • Daventry
  • Elstow (near Bedford)
  • Hexham
  • Holton le Moor
  • Keswick
  • Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Steeple Bumpstead
  • Maldon, Essex
  • Wirksworth

The Moot Hill or Law Mount at Lambroughton in Ayrshire, Scotland.

• There are also Moot hills
  • Dagenham
  • Godalming
  • Central Milton Keynes (Secklow Mound)
  • various sites in Wiltshire
  • Kilmacolm
  • Barony and Castle of Giffen, North Ayrshire, Scotland.
  • Lambroughton, North Ayrshire, Scotland.
  • Lawthorn, North Ayrshire, Scotland.

See also

• Witenagemot
• Godalming (hundred)
• Thing (assembly)
• Kgotla

External links

• Moot Hall Elstow, Bedfordshire
• Secklow Moot, Milton Keynes
• Six Hills Moot, Leicestershire