Flitwick Castle

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Flitwick Castle earthworks 2007

Flitwick Castle is a ruined castle in the town of Flitwick in the English county of Bedfordshire .

The small, wooden moth from the 11th century was surrounded by a moat . The castle was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as the property of William Lovet , a Norman . Lovet had driven Alwin , the Anglo-Saxon previous owner of Flitwick, away before the Norman conquest of England .

The earthworks of the castle that have survived to this day are now in a public park called Temple Field or Mount Hill . The trenches were filled in and the mound is now about 7 meters high. Temple Field was named after the nearby St Peter & St Paul Church. The site is now a Scheduled Monument .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Flitwick Church History . St Peter & St Paul with St Andrew Church, Flitwick. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  2. Mount Hill Flitwick's Castle . BBC. Retrieved April 8, 2016.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 51.1 "  N , 0 ° 30 ′ 17.6"  W.