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Various types of pottery have been discovered during fieldwalking. These range from iron age through to roman, anglo saxon and medieval, this area of Greasley appears to have been inhabited through most periods of time.
This is looking up the ancient medieval trackway, the road possibly used by visitors to the castle and village of Greasley. To the left, near the gateway is the site of the original gatehouse which was depicted in a tapestry map of 1632. The building in the far distance is a reconstructed end of the original medieval hall.
Original references to the village of Greasley
....the said Monastery and Park of Gryseley adjoining, and three hundred acres of land, ten messuages, twelve bovats, with the appurtances of Gryseley, which Richard le Carter, John Pygot, Robert Newbell, John le Carter, Thomas Dey, Roger Pygot, Hugh son of Agnes, John le Maisterman, Henry le Cartre, Richard Sareson, Roger Dey, Thomas de Fulwode, and Hugh de Pynkeston, his natives and villains held of him in the said Town in Villanage, together with the said Villains, their Chattels, sequel and Sects,
Four years later, in 1347, the 21st of Edward III., another Deed of gift was executed at Gryseley on the 20th of October, to which the names of the same former witnesses were appended.......give five messuages, one mill, and forty acres of land, with the appurtenances in Gresley and Watnowe,......and divers small rents in Greseley,........and a messuage and six acres of land on the north side of the Castle in Greseley, which William de Beaurepayr held for life, and another of five acres and one rood of land, which William de Worthington and Agnes his wife held for life, on the north side of the Castle also, &c., &c.
Taken from Truman and Marstons History of Ilkeston