Brackley Castle
Brackley Castle is an Outbound castle in the village Brackley , about 30 km from Oxford and about 35 km from Northampton in the English county of Northamptonshire .
Brackley Castle was built soon after 1086. The remains of his earthworks lie between Hinton Road and Tesco . It is a moth whose mound was 3 meters high and about 40 meters in diameter. The outer bailey was in the east. Archaeological excavations have revealed that the outer bailey was surrounded by a moat . Two fish ponds were originally outside the trench, but were later backfilled. The southern part of today's St James Lake could have been part of these fish ponds. Brackley Castle was probably abandoned in 1147. In 1173 the castle was destroyed.
Individual evidence
- ^ Nikolaus Pevsner, Bridget Cherry: Buildings of England . Chapter: Northamptonshire . Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1973. p. 117.
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 24.6 " N , 1 ° 9 ′ 12.6" W.