Moot hall

A moot hall is a meeting or assembly building, traditionally to decide local issues.^[1]

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.^[2]

Moot Hall, Aldeburgh, Suffolk

Moot Hall, Maldon, Essex

Surviving moot halls include:

• Moot Hall, Aldeburgh
• Moot Hall, Appleby
• Moot Hall, Brampton
• Moot Hall, Daventry
• Moot Hall, Elstow
• Moot Hall, Hexham
• Moot Hall, Holton le Moor
• Moot Hall, Keswick
• Moot Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne
• Moot Hall, Newark-on-Trent
• Moot Hall, Maldon
• Moot Hall, Mansfield
• Moot Hall, St Albans
• Moot Hall, Steeple Bumpstead
• Moot Hall, Wirksworth

See also

• Kgotla
• Mead hall
• Meeting house
• Thing (assembly)
• Witenagemot

References

1. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. G. & C. Merriam. 1913.
2. The Columbian Cyclopedia. Vol. 20. 1897.