Dorchester Castle

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Dorchester Castle is an abandoned castle in the town of Dorchester in the English county of Dorset .

The moth stood in the northern part of today's city. From 1154 to 1175 it belonged to the Earl of Cornwall and fell to the Crown in 1185. It appears that it was abandoned around 1290, and there is evidence that its masonry was reused in 1309 to build Dorchester Priory .

Today there are no remains of the castle and where it once stood is now Dorchester Prison.

The Great Western Railway had a locomotive of the Castle class , no. 4090, which was named after the castle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dorchester Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
  2. ↑ Photo of GWR 4073 Castle Class Locomotive No. 4090 at Leamington Spa. Warwickshire Railways. Retrieved March 11, 2016.

literature

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

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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '1.2 "  N , 2 ° 26" 13.2 "  W.