Eardisley Castle
Eardisley Castle is an Outbound castle in the village of Eardisley in the English county of Herefordshire . It is located 11 km northeast of the Welsh border town of Hay-on-Wye .
The moth , surrounded by a moat filled with water by a stream, was created in the 11th century. In the Domesday Book of 1086, Robert (probably Robert de Basqueville , father of Ralph de Baskerville ) is identified as the resident and Roger de Lacy as the owner .
In 1263 the castle belonged to Robert de Clifford . He had the Bishop of Hereford , Peter D'Aigueblanche , imprisoned there. From 1272 onwards, the castle was probably the main residence of the Baskerville family , although the owners changed frequently. The De Bohuns , Earls of Hereford , were the lords of Eardisley until 1372. Then the Earldom of Hereford ended and the castle reverted to the Crown.
In 1403 King Henry IV ordered Eardisley Castle to be fortified against the attacks of the Welsh general Owain Glyndŵr , even though the castle was described as ruinous as early as 1374.
In the 1640s the castle belonged to Sir Humphrey Baskerville , a royalist . It was burned to the ground in the English Civil War ; only one of the gatehouses was not in ruins afterwards. In 1670, a member of the Baskerville family still lived in this now dilapidated building in relative poverty.
The mound and moat are now the only remains of the former motte. The moat was backfilled in the summer of 1972.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 57.3 " N , 3 ° 0 ′ 29.1" W.