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Woodstock Palaces
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Everswell; Wudestok
In the civil parish of Blenheim.
In the historic county of Oxfordshire (Modern Authority of Oxfordshire, 1974 county of Oxfordshire).
Royal palace, first documented in 1129, in use until late C16. Used as a residence for Vanbrugh while he built Blenheim Palace, demolished in 1720. Last remnants levelled in C19. Possible site for recorded Stephanic castle, although this may have been in Woodstock Town. Woodstock palace was quite heavily walled. Everswell was an adjacent but separate group of buildings in the palace complex built for Rosamund Clifford in the 1170's
This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle
Palace
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Nothing visible remains.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP43921657
PastScape number;
336666, 1392385
Books
- Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of The Thames Valley and The Chilterns (Malvern) p79
Keevill, Graham D., 2000, Medieval Palaces, An Archaeology (Stroud; Tempus) p14, 32, 83
Thurley, Simon, 1993, The Royal Palaces of Tudor England (Yale University Press) p2, 8, 27, 60, 67-9, 73, 74, 114, 164, 166, 170, 203
Crossley, Alan (ed), 1990 'Blenheim: Woodstock manor' and 'Blenheim: The King's houses', VCH Oxfordshire Vol12 p431-35 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=7523 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=11221
James, T.B., 1990, The Palaces of Medieval England (London; Seaby)
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p387, 388, 389n28
Colvin, H.M., Ransome, D.R. and Summerson, John, 1982, The history of the King's Works Vol4: 1485-1660 (part 2) (London) p349-355, 552
DAMHB, 1975, Archaeological Investigations in New Palace Yard 1972-74 (HMSO)
Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker) p350
Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p1009-17 [plan]
Marshall, E., 1875, The Early History of Woodstock (London)
Timbs, J. and Gunn, A., 1872, Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales Vol2 (London) p427-35
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents
- This section is far from complete and the secondary
sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls (1217-25) p124-5
Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
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