Bronsil Castle

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Remains of Bronsil Castle. Attempts are currently being made to secure the remains.

Bronsil Castle is the ruin of a fortified manor house about 1.6 km east of the village of Eastnor in the English county of Herefordshire .

Bronsil Castle is first mentioned in a document around 1240, but this source does not contain a description of the structure. In 1449 and again in 1460 Richard Beauchamp , Treasurer of King Henry VI. , the royal permit to fortify his house (English: "License to Crenellate"). In 1644, during the English Civil War , the house was captured by the parliamentarian and burned down.

Little of the house has survived to this day, only the remains of the tower. However, part of it collapsed in 1990. Efforts are currently being made to secure the substance.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bronsil Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ Herefordshire Through Time - Bronsil Castle . Herefordshire Council. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012. 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 22, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.herefordshire.gov.uk

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

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 57.5 "  N , 2 ° 22 ′ 2.2"  W.