Ellesmere Castle
Ellesmere Castle is an abandoned castle in the market town of Ellesmere in the English county of Shropshire .
The motte probably had Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury , built soon after the Norman conquest of England on a high hill above the Mere east of the market. King Henry I gave it to the Peverell family as a fief, but King Henry II reclaimed it in about 1177 and gave it to Dafydd as a fief to Owain , Prince of Gwynedd. Until the 1240s, ownership of the castle changed hands between the English and Welsh royal families. Then the castle fell to the Le Strange family , who had origins in the village of Knockin in Shropshire.
The castle was destroyed in the English Civil War.
Today the sides of the mound are covered with trees and at the top there is a bowling green .
Individual evidence
- ^ T. Gregory: The Shropshire Gazetteer: With an Appendix Including a Survey of the County, and Valuable Miscellaneous Information . 1824. p. 141.
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- Ellesmere Castle . BBC home.
- Ellesmere Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer.
- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbott 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 54 '23 " N , 2 ° 53' 20.7" W.