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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, Aldeburgh.jpg
Moot Hall, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
Moot Hall, Maldon, Essex Maldon Moot Hall.jpg
Moot Hall, Maldon, Essex

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References

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