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Weston Turville; The Mount
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; West Turville; Manor House
In the civil parish of Weston Turville.
In the historic county of Buckinghamshire (Modern Authority of Buckinghamshire, 1974 county of Buckinghamshire).
Motte and twin baileys. The works apparently consisted of a motte with surrounding ditch and a bailey to the south of the motte; of a second bailey on the east, only a part of the ditch remains. Renn found a fragment of Saxo-Norman pottery here and gave it to Aylesbury Museum. There are two references to a castle here in C12, one to its slighting in 1173-4. The motte is 60m in diameter and 5m high, with a ditch 2.4m deep around the east arc. The southern bailey is 80m by 70m and is enclosed by a ditch 1.8m deep. The eastern bailey is 80m by 50 and is defended by a ditch, 2m in maximum depth, with an inner bank, now 0.5m high. Suggested as the site for the licence to crenellate granted in 1334 to John de Moleyns and his wife, although this may have been Weston Turville Manor Farm (qv)
This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Earthworks remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP859104
PastScape number;
344448
Books
- Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of The Thames Valley and The Chilterns (Malvern) p37
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p10 [slight]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p28-29 [Called Manor House]
Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p317
Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker)
Page, Wm (ed), 1906, VCH Buckinghamshire Vol1 p316
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p148
Journal Articles
- Hagerty, R.P., 1986, ‘The Turvilles and the castle of Weston Turville' Records of Buckinghamshire Vol28 p179-81
Yeoman, P.A.St J., 1986, ‘Excavations at the motte, Weston Turville Manor, 1985' Records of Buckinghamshire Vol28 p169-78
Farley M., 1985, Records of Buckinghamshire Vol27 p132
Brown, R, Allen, 1959, 'A List of Castles, 1154–1216' English Historical Review Vol74 [Reprinted in Brown, R. Allen, 1989, Castles, conquest and charters: collected papers (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p249-280]
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