Bourne Castle

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Remains of Bourne Castle in Wellhead Park.
Bourne Eau on South Street.
Shippon Barn

Bourne Castle is an Outbound castle in the market Bourne in the southern part of the English county of Lincolnshire .

Baldwin FitzGilbert , the son of Gilbert FitzRichard from the De Clare family , had a Norman castle built here. In the Middle Ages there was a moth with two outer castles and an unusual, concentric floor plan. The castle was destroyed in 1645 after being used by Oliver Cromwell's troops in the English Civil War. A farm was built in their place.

Today only traces of the mound and the trenches of the core castle and the outer castles are preserved. The site is now a park called Well Head Park , owned by the Bourne United Charities and open to the public.

Individual references and comments

  1. ^ A b Rex Needle: Well Head Park . Bourne United Charities. 2010. Archived from the original on August 15, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 17, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bourneunitedcharities.co.uk
  2. ↑ The Bourne Eau was diverted to fill the moats . This part is the outer trench. The eastern courtyard ( outer bailey ) was on the right in the photo. The eastern pomerium was on the left in the photo.
  3. ↑ Grade II structure, which was probably built with building blocks from the castle, especially the "arrow slot" windows.
  4. ↑ Shippon Barn to North of Well Head Cottage . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  5. ↑ Bourne Castle . Historic England - Pastscape. English Heritage. Retrieved December 17, 2015.

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  • Bourne Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer.
  • Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 .
  • ES Armitage: Early Norman Castles . 1912. pp. 107-108.
  • Paul Cope-Faulkner: Archaeologic Watching Brief During Pipeline Trenching at Bourne Castle, Bourne, Lincolnshire (BCD 01) . Report No. 85/2. April 2002. Archaeological Project Services.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 45 ′ 56.2 "  N , 0 ° 22 ′ 42.8"  W.