Ardley Castle

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Ardley Castle is a ruined castle in the south-west of the village of Ardley in the English county of Oxfordshire .

It is said to have been an illegally built castle during the reign of King Stephen . It was destroyed after 1154 at the behest of King Henry II . Today only an oval fence and a shallow moat are left.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Plantagenet Somerset Fry: David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 . P. 179.

Coordinates: 51 ° 56 '29.8 "  N , 1 ° 13' 2.3"  W.