Penwortham Castle
Penwortham Castle is an Outbound castle on the south bank of the River Ribble in Penwortham west of Preston in the English county of Lancashire . The site is a Scheduled Monument .
history
The moth was Roger Poitevin shortly after the Norman conquest of England built the 1066th It was used to monitor the estuary of the river and a ford over it. When Roger Poitevin had Lancaster Castle built, Penwortham Castle lost its importance. Today only the mound remains .
Individual evidence
- ^ Castle Hill . Pastscape. Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
swell
- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
- PJ Gooderson: A History of Lancashire . Batsford, 1980. ISBN 0-7134-2588-1
Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ 21.6 " N , 2 ° 43 ′ 24.2" W.