Rochdale Castle

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Rochdale Castle was a castle in Rochdale in the English administrative unit Greater Manchester (formerly: County of Lancashire ). The wooden moth was erected in the period immediately after the Norman conquest of England in 1066.

The mound was 30 meters in diameter at its base; the courtyard was south of it and was 36.5 meters by 30.4 meters. The defenses consisted of a curtain wall and a moat . The castle was abandoned at the beginning of the 13th century.

There are documents about the ruins from 1322. Modern buildings were erected in the former courtyard and a house was built on the mound in the 19th century. Today nothing is visible of the buildings of the original castle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rochdale Castle . In: Pastscape . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  2. ^ A b Rochdale Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  3. ^ David J. Cathcart King: Catellarium Anglicanum: An Index and Bibliography of the Castles of England, Wales and the Islands . Volume I: Anglesey-Montgomery . Kraus International Publications, 1983. S, 247.
  4. ^ Caron Newman: Medieval Period Resource Assessment in Archeology North West . Issue 8 (2006). P. 140.

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 43.2 "  N , 2 ° 9 ′ 51.8"  W.