Hanley Castle

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Hanley Castle is the ruin of a castle in the village of the same name between the towns of Malvern and Upton upon Severn in the English county of Worcestershire . The castle ruins and village are near the River Severn .

history

In the 12th century, the densely forested area became the seat of administration for the Malvern Chase , a royal hunting ground between the Malvern Hills and the River Severn.

There was once a Norman castle there, which Johann Ohneland had built in 1206-1212 as a hunting lodge near today's village. In 1216 King Heinrich III lent it . to Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford , and it remained in the hands of the powerful de Clare family until 1314 .

After that, the castle passed through the hands of different owners and finally fell to the crown together with the manor in 1487. As a result, the castle slowly fell into disrepair and was largely demolished during the reign of King Henry VIII . The masonry of the only remaining tower is said to have been used to repair the Severn Bridge in Upton upon Severn in 1795.

A modern house that stood on the same piece of land burned down in January 1904.

A few traces of the old castle have been preserved, a dry moat and a mound . The area is overgrown with tall conifers .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Malcolm Fare: The Hanley - a history of Hanley Castle and Hanley Swan . Logaston Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-906663-37-7 . P. 1, 3.
  2. ↑ Hanley Castle . ECastles.co.uk . Retrieved May 9, 2016.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 17.8 "  N , 2 ° 14 ′ 21.2"  W.