A moot hall is a meeting or assembly building, traditionally to decide local issues. 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. However, many moot halls are on relatively new sites within later settlements. There are moot halls in: Aldeburgh Appleby-in-Westmorland Brampton Colchester Daventry Elstow Hexham Holton le Moor Keswick Newcastle upon Tyne Steeple Bumpstead Maldon Mansfield Monnington on Wye Wirksworth See also Kgotla Mead hall Meeting house Thing (assembly) Witenagemot References External links Moot Hall Elstow, Bedford Secklow Hundred, Milton Keynes Six Hills Moot, Leicestershire Anglo-Saxon architecture Buildings and structures in England Seats of local government in Europe Government buildings in England