Cheveley Castle

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Cheveley Castle is the ruins of a mansion in the village of Cheveley in the English county of Cambridgeshire .

History and construction

Sir John Pulteney , a merchant, financier and Lord Mayor of London , had the house built around 1341 on the outskirts of the village of Cheveley. The mansion was built in a style that was common in the time of King Edward I. It had four round towers, a gatehouse and a curtain wall and was built on a plot of land in the north-west of the village that was provided with a finely formed moat . Cheveley Castle is the only mansion of its type in Cambridgeshire and was designed less for defense than as a hunting lodge for a high-ranking person. In the 14th century Cheveley was in the middle of a medieval deer park. The moat in Cheveley may have served as a model for other similarly designed houses in the east of England.

The manor house fell into disrepair at the beginning of the 17th century and today only a few remains of the wall remain. The property is a Scheduled Monument .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cheveley: Manors and estate . A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire) (2002). Retrieved February 17, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Cheveley Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ Oliver Hamilton Creighton: Castles and Landscapes: Power, Community and Fortification in Medieval England . Equinox, London 2005. ISBN 978-1-904768-67-8 . P. 195.

Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 27.9 ″  N , 0 ° 27 ′ 22.7 ″  E