page_title: Moot hall
hierarchical_section_title: Moot hall
caption_attribution_description: English: The Moot Hill or Law Mount above the River Annick near Castleton Farm, East Ayrshire, Scotland. A photograph taken by me in 2005 for this article
context_page_description: 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.
  There are moot halls in:
  Aldeburgh
  Appleby-in-Westmorland
  Brampton
  Colchester
  Daventry
  Elstow
  Hexham
  Holton le Moor
  Keswick
  Newcastle upon Tyne
  Steeple Bumpstead
  Maldon, Essex
  Mansfield
  Monnington on Wye
  Wirksworth,
  There are also Moot hills
  Dagenham
  Godalming
  Central Milton Keynes
  various sites in Wiltshire
  Kilmacolm
  Barony and Castle of Giffen, North Ayrshire, Scotland.
  Lambroughton, North Ayrshire, Scotland.
  Lawthorn, North Ayrshire, Scotland.
context_section_description: 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.
  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
  Mansfield
  Monnington on Wye
  Wirksworth,
   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.
caption: The Moot Hill or Law Mount at Lambroughton in Ayrshire, Scotland.
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