Place-Name Form: magnu[m] port[um] ex oppo[s]ito Belmotepole

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Modern NameBelmot
TypeFarm or estate
Grid ReferenceSK 19551 26361
ParishTutbury
CountyStaffordshire
SourceSC6/988/19
Source Full Title[Tutbury Honor]: [Stafford] Tutbury, &c. (as in SC 6/988/14): [Stafford] Description of Officer: Divers Ministers
Source LocationTNA
Source Catalogue ReferenceSC/988/19
Source URL
Date 1408-1410 (10 to 11 Hen IV)
Notes John of Gaunt built a hunting lodge with pool/moat at Belmote in 1370s including chambers (1374) and a private oratory (1378): VCH Staffordshire X, pp. 5, 41. Belmote was one of the forest gates in 1559: VCH Staffordshire X, p. 88.

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