Hangthwaite Castle

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Hangthwaite Castle is an Outbound castle north of the district Scawthorpe market Doncaster in English administrative unit South Yorkshire .

history

Hangthwaite Castle was a moth erected for Nigel Fozzard after the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century . The moth was surrounded by a wide moat; the bean-shaped outer bailey was in the east, the little mound in the northwest of the complex. The latter could also have been a barbican .

In the 13th century, a fortified house called the Radcliffe Moat replaced the castle as a local fortress.

Today only the mound and a few trenches of the moth can be seen. The facility is now called Castle Hill in Doncaster and a primary school nearby also bears this name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Castle Hill, Langthwaite . CastleUK.net. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ Hangthwaite Castle . Hangthwaite website. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  3. ^ Radcliffe Moat . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  4. ^ Castle Hill Primary School . School website. Retrieved May 3, 2016.

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '14.8 "  N , 1 ° 10' 8.8"  W.