Benefield Castle

Benefield Castle is an Outbound castle in the village of Lower Benefield between the towns of Corby and Oundle in the English county of Northamptonshire .

Originally there was a Norman manor house at this point . A stone ringwork fortress was built there in the 13th century. It was given up again at the beginning of the 14th century. Today a rectangular platform can be seen at this point, which is surrounded by a wide moat - the former moat . This ditch is in turn enclosed by an earth wall.

Sources and web links

• Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
• Benefield Castle . CastleUK.
• Benefield Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer.

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 4.6 ″  N , 0 ° 32 ′ 52.7 ″  W.