Moot hall

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A Moot hall is meeting or assembly place, traditionally to decide local issues.

In Anglo-Saxon England, a low ring-shaped earthwork served as a moot mound where the elders of the Hundred would meet to decide on issues.

• There is a Moot hall in
• * Aldeburgh
• * Colchester
• * Daventry
• * Elstow (near Bedford)
• * Hexham
• * Keswick, Cumbria
• * Maldon, Essex

• There is moot hall site or a moot mound site in
• * Dagenham
• * Godalming
• * Central Milton Keynes
• * various sites in Wiltshire
• * Kilmacolm

See also

• Godalming (hundred)

External links

• [Secklow Moot], Milton Keynes
• [Six Hills Moot], Leicestershire

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