moot hall

{{Short description|British meeting or assembly building for local issues}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2023}}

A moot hall is a meeting or assembly building, traditionally to decide local issues.{{cite book|url=https://www.websters1913.com/words/Moot-hall|title=Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary|publisher=G. & C. Merriam|year=1913}}

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.{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=WjUKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP257|title=The Columbian Cyclopedia|volume= 20|year=1897}}

File:Moot Hall, Aldeburgh.jpg, Suffolk]]

File:Maldon Moot Hall.jpg, 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