Locking Castle

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The site of the former castle is now part of a golf course

Locking Castle was a castle on the Carberry Hill near the former RAF -Standortes Locking in the English County North Somerset . It is considered a Scheduled Monument .

The castle on Carberry Hill was a moth . Excavations in 1902 revealed the remains of a small stone room surrounded by a moat . Fragments of earthenware and the remains of a sword have also been found.

The origin of the castle is not clear. It could have been part of the Kewstoke or Hutton manor . The two manors were combined and awarded by King Henry I to Geoffrey de Dun . In 1214 Locking Castle was given to Woodspring Priory and lost its military importance.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Motte and bailey castle and associated earthworks south of Locking Head Farm . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ Locking Castle . Pastscape. Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved July 6, 2016.
  3. ^ Robert Dunning: Somerset Castles . Somerset Books, Tiverton 1995. ISBN 978-0-86183-278-1 . Pp. 39-40.

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 36.2 "  N , 2 ° 54 ′ 52.9"  W.