Ruins of the Elizabethan manor house built within the deer park at Tankersley. The medieval manor house was probably on the site of Rectory farm (HSY6498). The site was moved in the 16th century into the park at a time when it was the fashion for elite residences to be away from the local village (Hey 1975, 111). The building was partially demolished in the 18th century but fragments remain. The hall may have been expanded from an earlier hunting lodge (PIN164). The deer park was formed in 1303 when Hugh de Elland was granted the right to free warren. Deer remained till the late 18th century. (Hey 1986, 82). There is no legibility of the former deer park. The origin of the former moorland landscape is uncertain.