Bampton Castle (Oxfordshire)

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Bampton Castle was a castle in the village of Bampton in the English county of Oxfordshire .

There are very different information about the construction time: The British historian Plantagenet Somerset Fry thinks that the castle was built as a moth in the reign of King Stephen around 1142 at the behest of Empress Matilda , another source mentions the years 1314/1315, during the reign King Edward II , when Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke , received permission "to make a castle out of his house in Bampton".

The castle was demolished before 1789, but parts of the buildings were incorporated into a country house called Ham Court , listed by English Heritage as Historic Building II *. Degree is listed.

Nearby there was an RAF radio station called RAF Bampton Castle .

The castle in its state in the 1360s served as the template for Mel Starr's medieval mystery series , the first story of which is The Unquiet Bones, the first chronicle of Hugh of Singleton surgeon .

"Bampton Castle" was also the name of the village's exchange . Presumably they were named so to avoid confusion with other exchanges in Great Britain, which were also called "Bampton" but had no castles. The exchange still exists today and is responsible for Bampton and the neighboring towns. It is particularly close to the location of the former castle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 . P. 183.
  2. ↑ a b c History . Bampton Oxfordshire. Archived from the original on November 5, 2007. Retrieved November 18, 2015.
  3. ^ Images of England: Ham Court . English Heritage. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 18, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.imagesofengland.org.uk
  4. ^ Melvin R. Starr: The Unquiet Bones, the first chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon . Monarch Books, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8254-6290-0
  5. ^ Bampton Castle Telephone Exchange, Oxon . April 8, 2009. Retrieved November 18, 2015.

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 31.4 "  N , 1 ° 33 ′ 10.8"  W.