Driffield Castle

Driffield Castle is an Outbound castle in the small town of Driffield in English management unit East Riding of Yorkshire .

It was a Norman moth that Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester (approx. 1047-1101), had built. It was fortified again in the 13th century. In the 19th century, the mound was damaged by a quarry built there . Residential houses were built in the former courtyard.

Today only earthworks received the Moot Hill called.

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

Coordinates: 54 ° 0 ′ 43.7 "  N , 0 ° 25 ′ 19.4"  W.