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Cheswardine Castle
In the civil parish of Cheswardine.
In the historic county of Shropshire (Modern Authority of Shropshire, 1974 county of Shropshire).
The remains of a moated site, known as Cheswardine Castle, and an associated linear bank, located 130m north of St. Swithun's Church. The moat is waterfilled, and surrounds a 30m square island. The moat arms are approximately 28m wide and over 2m deep, except the southern part of the western arm, which has been widened to form a pool. A stone causeway across the southern arm replaced an earlier causeway in the same location. The remains of a matching stone causeway cross the northern arm. No upstanding remains survive on the moat island, but embedded blocks of sandstone are visible. These are thought to represent the remains of the fortified manor house, Cheswardine Castle, first mentioned in 1330. To the west of the moat lies a linear bank, approximately 90m long and between 8 and 12m wide. It is orientated north-west by south-east, and partly overlies the widened end of the western moat arm. As it crosses the arm, the height of the bank increases from about 1.2m to 4m. The purpose of this feature is .
This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry footings remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SJ71883007
PastScape number;
74414
Books
- Salter, Mike, 2001 (2edn), The Castles and Moated Mansions of Shropshire (Malvern) p36
Salter, Mike, 1993, Midlands Castles (Birmingham) p40
Jackson, M.J.,1988, Castles of Shropshire (Shrewsbury: Shropshire Libraries) p17-18
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p422
Donaldson-Hudson, R., 1939, Historical Survey of the Parish of Cheswardine (Shresbury) p39-41
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Wall [after Downham], 1908, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Shropshire Vol1 p403
Journal Articles
- 1987, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol65 p4
1886, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol9 p166
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