Aslockton Castle

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Aslockton Castle is a ruined castle in the village Aslockton in the English county of Nottinghamshire .

A moth was erected in the 12th century. Only earthworks of it are still preserved today. The mound is called Cranmer's Mound and is about 4.8 meters high. To the southeast of it are two rectangular platforms that are fenced in with trenches. Later houses of the Cranmer family stood there . Archbishop Thomas Cranmer was born here.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aslockton Castle . CastleUK. Archived from the original on November 3, 2007. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  2. ↑ Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 . P. 180.
  3. ^ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England . Chapter: Nottinghamshire . Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1979.

Coordinates: 52 ° 57 '14.5 "  N , 0 ° 53' 38.5"  W.