Chickward Mound 1

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Chirkward 1

In the civil parish of Huntington.
In the historic county of Herefordshire (Modern Authority of Herefordshire, 1974 county of Hereford and Worcester).

Possible motte and bailey. An irregular mound, the top of which adjoins the road. Mound has a wet ditch on the south-west and west and there is the possiblity of an associated bailey in a field to the west. In 1992 the Woolhope naturalist field Club described it as a motte formed by cutting a great ditch across the end of the ridge with the bottom of the cutting now carrying the modern road. The mound has a wet ditch fed by springs with slight traces of a former dam. In the small paddock adjoining the site appears to be be the partially robbed out foundations trench of a substantial wall. The buried stonework in the trench is up to 6 ft thick. there is more buried stonework in the paddock. This site may be that of a fortified dwelling or just a former farmhouse site. It has many of the features associated with other fortified sites in the area, such as fishponds, wet ditches and stonework.

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House
Timber Castle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Cropmarks/slight earthworks remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SO287535

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 33732

• Web site links
  • http://www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk/castles/castlesdata_az/chickward_kington.htm
• Books
  • Salter, Mike, 2000, Castles of Herefordshire and Worcestershire (Malvern) p46
    Shoesmith, Ron, 1996, Castles and Moated Sites of Herefordshire (Logaston Press)
• Journal Articles
  • Halliwell, P.R. (ed), 1992, Herefordshire Archaeological News Vol57, 44