South Moreton Castle

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South Moreton Castle is a ruined castle in the village of South Moreton in the English county of Oxfordshire . The moth was erected in the 11th century. A nearby fortress , probably from the 12th century, bears the same name.

history

South Moreton Castle is an 11th-century Norman moth over Mill Brook near the village church. The mound is 50 meters wide, 4 meters high and surrounded by a 15 meter wide moat that was originally filled with the water of the stream. It was damaged towards the end of the Victorian Age and a forty-five-foot-long rampart that stretched away from the mound was probably destroyed at the same time. There are local rumors that some victims of the English Civil War in the 17th century were buried on the mound . The castle ruins are considered a Scheduled Monument .

The remains of the fortress

Immediately north of the ruins of the main castle is another fortification, probably from the civil war of anarchy in the 12th century. Another version is that the moat is instead connected to the nearby mansion and that the fortress from the 1140s was actually the first castle above Mill Brook.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Motte castle immediately west of St John the Baptist's Church . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Parishes: South Moreton . British History Online. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  3. ^ A b W. J. Betts: South Moreton in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Archaeological Journal . Issue 15 (1910). P. 73.
  4. ^ South Moreton Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  5. ^ A b South Moreton 'siege work' . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
  6. ↑ M. Spurrell: Containing Wallingford Castle, 1146-53 in Oxoniensia . Issue 60 (1995). P. 260. Retrieved October 11, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 18.2 "  N , 1 ° 11 ′ 47.8"  W.