Eaton Socon Castle

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JD Mackenzie Castle Floor Plan: The Castles of England: their story and structure

Eaton Socon Castle is an Outbound castle on the Great Ouse in the village of Eaton Socon . This village originally belonged to the English county of Bedfordshire but has been regrouped in the parish of St Neots in Cambridgeshire .

The castle was built in Norman times and had two courtyards. The construction required the demolition of Anglo-Saxon houses and the castle was surrounded by a moat filled with water , which was fed by the river. Eaton Socon Castle belonged to the Mandeville family, but in 1156 it was the seat of the Beauchamp family .

Today only earthworks remain.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Dixon Mackenzie: The Castles of England: their story and structure . Macmillan, New York 1897. p. 187.

literature

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

Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '56.9 "  N , 0 ° 17' 1.9"  W.