Aldford Castle

Aldford Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Aldford in the English county of Cheshire . The moth is north of St John's Church . The church stands on the site of a filled moat in the outer bailey .

The castle was built in the 12th century at the behest of Richard de Aldford . Some fragments of the walls in the outer bailey and important earthworks have been preserved to this day. The castle secured the ford over the Dee . The property is a Scheduled Monument .

Individual evidence

^ Clare Hartwell, Matthew Hyde, Edward Hubbard, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England . Chapter: Cheshire . Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2011 (1971). ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 . P. 95.
↑ Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 . P. 176.
^ Aldford Castle . CastleUK. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
^ Aldford motte and bailey and shell keep castle . Historic England. Retrieved November 25, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Aldford Castle - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

53.1304 -2.8698Coordinates: 53 ° 7 '49.4 " N , 2 ° 52' 11.3" W.

[HartwellHydeHubbardPevsner95-1] Clare Hartwell, Matthew Hyde, Edward Hubbard, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England . Chapter: Cheshire . Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2011 (1971). ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 . P. 95.

[Fry176-2] Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 . P. 176.

[CastleUK-3] Aldford Castle . CastleUK. Retrieved November 25, 2015.

[Pastscape-4] Aldford motte and bailey and shell keep castle . Historic England. Retrieved November 25, 2015.