Beaumont Castle

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Beaumont Castle is an Outbound castle in the village Mixbury in the English county of Oxfordshire .

history

Beaumont Castle was probably a moth or a ringwork. The castle was probably built by Roger d'Ivry after the Norman conquest of England . The castle was probably called “Beaumont” (English: “Beautiful Mountain”) because it was built on a natural rocky promontory over a local watercourse. The castle was abandoned before 1216.

Private excavations by two London brothers in 1954 and 1955 unearthed remains of a torture chamber and an underground passage. However, these discoveries are doubted by experts.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Beaumont Castle, Mixbury . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  2. ^ A b c Parishes: Mixbury in A History of the County of Oxford . Volume 6 (1959). Pp. 251-262. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ Beaumont Castle . English Heritage. Retrieved December 7, 2015.

Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 7.2 "  N , 1 ° 6 ′ 46.8"  W.