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Rochester, Boley Hill
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Bullie Hill; Bully
In the civil parish of Rochester.
In the historic county of Kent (Modern Authority of Medway, 1974 county of Kent).
Motte and bailey much damaged. Said by Ella Armitage to have been built soon after conquest and superseded by Rochester. However, recent work has suggested that this site was only ever a siege castle, either of 1088 or 1215, and the original castle recorded as built after the conquest was at the site of Rochester.
This site has been described as a;
Siege Work
Timber Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Cropmarks/slight earthworks remains.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ74066848
PastScape number;
416275
- Web site links
- Books
- Salter, Mike, 2000, The Castles of Kent (Malvern) p60
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p124 [mention]
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p233
Guy, John, 1980, Kent Castles (Meresborough Books)
Smithers, David Waldron, 1980, Castles in Kent (Chatham)
Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p806-8
Armitage, Ella, 1912, The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles (London: John Murray) p195-201
Chalkley Gould and Downham, 1908, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Kent Vol1 p419-20
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p32
- Journal Articles
- Flight, Colin and Harrison, A.C., 1978, 'Rochester Castle, 1976' Archaeologia Cantiana,Vol94
Dulley, A.J.F., 1960, Archaeologia Cantiana,Vol74 p197-8
Wheatley, Canon S.W., 1929, 'Boley Hill, Rochester, after the Roman Period' Archaeologia Cantiana,Vol41 p127-141
Wheatley, Canon S.W., 1927, 'Boley Hill, Rochester' Archaeologia Cantiana,Vol39 p159-164
Gomme, G.L., 1887, 'Boley Hill, Rochester' Archaeologia Cantiana,Vol17 p181-188
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