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Newhall Tower
In the civil parish of Newhall .
In the historic county of Cheshire (Modern Authority of Cheshire, 1974 county of Cheshire).
Castle in this vicinity is mentioned in 1275. PastScape reports this as a tower house. Newhall Tower is said to have been built around 1227 by the lords Audley. Recorded descriptions imply a fortified manor, perhaps with a pele tower, and having a moat. Leland writes 'now down'. Recently a search of air photo's located the site in the centre of modern hamlet of Newhall, site partly overlaided by factory (a late C12 coin hord found when building this factory in 1939). "On the western side of the road are the visible remains of the castle consisting of an off-centre circular mound set within a square ditched depression. This is set within the remains of a large sub-rectilinear enclosure that survuves as a mixture of earthworks and cropmarks. Significant quantities of dressed sandstone and architectural fragments have been found at the site and re-used, including pillar bases."(Anon 2007) Possibly associated with a park and water mill.
This site has been described as a;
Tower House
Masonry Castle
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Cropmarks/slight earthworks remains.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SJ60784550
PastScape number;
1391047
County Sites and Monuments Record number; 2077
Books
- Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles and Tower Houses of Lancashire and Cheshire (Malvern) p20
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p69
Dodgson, J.McN., 1970-1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire Vol3 p101
Ridgway, Maurice Hill, 1958, 'Medieval Castles' in Sylvester, D. and Nulty, G. (eds), The Historical Atlas of Cheshire (Cheshire Community Council) p24-5
Ormerod, G., 1882 [2edn], History of the County Palatine and city of Chester (London) Vol390-1
Journal Articles
- Anon, 2007, 'Newhall Tower' Castle Studies Group Journal Vol20 p147 [site identification report]
Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p56
Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol5 p25
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