Woodwalton Castle
Woodwalton Castle is a derelict castle in Church End at the north end of the parish of Woodwalton in Huntingdonshire , part of the English county of Cambridgeshire . The remains of the small moth are limited to earthworks , consisting of a mound and a moat that surrounds a circular castle courtyard. A large moat, apparently old, runs from the moat in a northeastern direction. The facility on a small hill is a Scheduled Monument .
It is not known who built the castle or when it was built. It is believed, however, that it was built for the Bolbec family , who ruled Woodwalton from 1086 to 1134, or by Ramsey Abbey , which Walter de Bolbec gave the manor in 1134 . But it can also be that the construction of the castle during the anarchy , either by the sons of Aubrey de Senlis , the Woodwalton 1143–1144, or by Ernald , the illegitimate son of Geoffrey de Mandeville , who took his armed forces after his death Father moved from Ramsey to Woodwalton in 1144 , was commissioned.
The presence of fish ponds suggests that the castle survived the military conflict and developed as the center of the northern part of the municipality. The main town of Woodwalton is about 2 km south and St Andrew's Church is isolated 600 meters south of the castle ruins; it was probably used by both settlements.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Earthwork Mounts in Huntingdonshire . 'Huntingdonshire.info. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
- ↑ a b c Wood Walton Castle Hill . Gatehouse Gazetteer. 1997. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
- ^ Andrew Wareham: Lords and communities in early medieval East Anglia , Boydell Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1-84383-155-6 . P. 91.
- ↑ Explore the history of a Cambridgeshire anarchy castle . BBC Cambridgeshire, July 8, 2010. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 45.8 ″ N , 0 ° 13 ′ 14.9 ″ W.