Brightwell Castle

Brightwell Castle is an Outbound castle in the village of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell between cities Didcot and Wallingford in the English county of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire ).

King Stephen had the castle built in 1145. At that time there was Anarchy , a civil war between King Stephen and his cousin, Empress Matilda , whose headquarters were in nearby Wallingford Castle . In 1153, Matilda's son, later King Henry II , destroyed Brightwell Castle.

A mansion was later built on the property .

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• Brightwell Castle . Berkshire History.
• Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3

Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '47.1 "  N , 1 ° 9' 59.9"  W.