Chideock Castle

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Chideock Castle is an Outbound castle north of the village of Chideock between the market Bridport and the small town of Lyme Regis in the southwestern English county of Dorset .

history

In 1086 the settlement Chideock was mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Cicihoc". 1379-1380 had the landlord John de Chideock Chideock Castle built directly north of the settlement. In the High Middle Ages, the property fell to the Catholic Arundell family , who used it as a retreat for priests and loyal partisans during religious persecution. During the reign of the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I , Chideock Castle became the center of Catholicism in Dorset and there was considerable theological controversy there. Four local Catholics - John Cornelius , Thomas Bosgrave , John Carey, and Patrick Salmon - were martyred in the late 16th century . Their trial took place in what is now the Chideock House Hotel , and they were subsequently executed in Dorchester . The four were called the "Martyrs of Chideock". A fifth, Hugh Green , who became the settlement's chaplain in 1612, was martyred in 1642. All five were beatified on December 15, 1929 .

During the English Civil War , Chideock was on the royalist side and the castle changed hands several times until the parliamentarians under the governor of Lyme Regis, Colonel Ceeley , finally left it in ruins in 1645. Parts of the castle remained until at least 1733, but today only part of the moat can be seen. It is located in a field that can be reached via Ruins Lane . The spot is marked with a crucifix in memory of the martyrs.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Roland Gant: Dorset Villages . Robert Hale, 1980. ISBN 0-7091-8135-3 . Pp. 122-123.
  2. ↑ a b c d Reginald JW Hammond: Dorset Coast . 4th edition. Ward Lock, 1979. ISBN 0-7063-5494-X . Pp. 36-37.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Peter Booton: Booton Foot Trails: Chideock, Golden Cap and Seatown . Dorset Life Magazine. May 2012. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
  4. ↑ JH Bettey: Dorset . David & Charles, 1974. ISBN 0-7153-6371-9 . P. 99.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '59.9 "  N , 2 ° 49' 1.6"  W.