Wormegay Castle

Mound of Wormegay Castle

Wormegay Castle is an abandoned castle near the village of Wormegay in the English county of Norfolk . Today only earthworks remain.

Details

The moth is believed to have been built by Hermer de Ferrers after the Norman conquest of England and it remained in the De Ferrers family until 1166 . The mound is surrounded on three sides by a trench 15 meters wide and 2 meters deep , 5 meters high and 77 meters by 62 meters at its base. The courtyard covered an area of 150 meters × 88 meters and rose 1 meter above the surrounding area. In the Middle Ages, the castle must have been clearly visible from all sides, unlike today. It must have been a local landmark and it was easy to control the dam through the fens (swamps). Wormegay Castle was the center - called the Caput - of an honor of feudal estates throughout East Anglia . As the center of a larger estate, Wormegay Castle had to provide services to Norwich Castle under the Castle Guard system.

Individual references and comments

^ ^A ^b Robert Liddiard: Landscapes of Lordship: Norman castles and the countryside in medieval Norfolk, 1066-1200 . Archaeopress, 2000. ISBN 978-1-84171-156-0 . P. 75. ( online , accessed December 22, 2016).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Wormegay Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
^ Robert Liddiard: Landscapes of Lordship: Norman castles and the countryside in medieval Norfolk, 1066-1200 . Archaeopress, 2000. ISBN 978-1-84171-156-0 . S. 160. ( online , accessed December 22, 2016).
^ Norman John Greville Pounds: The Medieval Castle in England and Wales: a social and political history . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994. ISBN 978-0-521-45828-3 . P. 131. ( online , accessed December 22, 2016).
↑ The Castle Guard system consisted in the fact that low-ranking nobles had to provide royal castles with knights and soldiers for defense and received money or land for it.

52.6779 0.4522Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 40.4 ″ N , 0 ° 27 ′ 7.9 ″ E

[Liddiard75-1] A ^b Robert Liddiard: Landscapes of Lordship: Norman castles and the countryside in medieval Norfolk, 1066-1200 . Archaeopress, 2000. ISBN 978-1-84171-156-0 . P. 75. ( online , accessed December 22, 2016).

[GatehouseGazetteer-2] Wormegay Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved December 22, 2016.

[Liddiard160-3] Robert Liddiard: Landscapes of Lordship: Norman castles and the countryside in medieval Norfolk, 1066-1200 . Archaeopress, 2000. ISBN 978-1-84171-156-0 . S. 160. ( online , accessed December 22, 2016).

[Pounds131-4] Norman John Greville Pounds: The Medieval Castle in England and Wales: a social and political history . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994. ISBN 978-0-521-45828-3 . P. 131. ( online , accessed December 22, 2016).

[Bemerkung1-5] The Castle Guard system consisted in the fact that low-ranking nobles had to provide royal castles with knights and soldiers for defense and received money or land for it.