Heighley Castle
Heighley Castle (or Heleigh Castle ) is a ruined castle near the village of Madeley in the English county of Staffordshire . The castle was completed by the Audley family in 1233 and it was one of their family seats for over 300 years. The ruins today consist of wall fragments, most of which are overgrown by plants. English Heritage has listed the ruin as a historical building of the 2nd degree and it is considered a Scheduled Monument . The castle ruins are now privately owned and not open to the public.
history
Heighley Castle was built at the behest of Henry de Aldithley (approx. 1175-1246) (later: "de Audley"), High Sheriff of Shropshire 1227-1232. He also had the nearby Red Castle (in Shropshire ) built. In 1223 he equipped the nearby Cistercian Abbey of St. Mary in Hulton and donated a large amount of land to it, some of which he had inherited from his mother and some of which he had bought.
It was held for the royalists under King Charles I during the English Civil War , and then destroyed by parliamentary troops in the 1640s .
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- MW Greenslade, RB Pugh (Editor): A History of the County of Stafford . Victoria County History. Volume 3 Chapter: 11. Houses of Cistercian monks: The abbey of Hulton . British History Online.
- Heighley Castle . Images of England. English Heritage.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ann Williams, GH Martin: Domesday Book: A Complete Translation . Penguin, London 2002. ISBN 978-0-14-143994-5 . Pp. 681, 1303.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 1 '2.6 " N , 2 ° 20' 26.9" W.