Radmore

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Red Moor; Redmoor; Redmoore; Rademore; Ann's Well in Court Bank's Covert

In the civil parish of Cannock Wood.
In the historic county of Staffordshire (Modern Authority of Staffordshire, 1974 county of Staffordshire).

Rectangular moated site; possibly the site of a royal hunting lodge built by Henry II in 1157-8 and later used as a private hunting lodge by the Bishops of Lichfield. Another possible site for the castle of Cannock mentioned, as there being records of a castle, in 1851, though may be farmstead moat or monastic grange. Duignan records expenditure of £8 in 1162 on a fishpond at Radmore and on this bases puts the kings house here rather than at Castle Ring (qv). The history of the King's works records this as successor to the King's lodge of Cannock

This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle
Palace.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Questionable.
Earthworks remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SK04291170

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

PastScape number; 304788

Books

Salter, Mike, 1997, Castles and Moated Mansions of Staffordshire (Malvern) p39
Greenslade, M.W., 1967, in Greenslade, M.W. and Jenkins, J.G. (eds), VCH Staffordshire Vol2 p338- [for history of Cannock Forest and Foresters])
Colvin, H.M., Brown, R.Allen and Taylor, A.J., 1963, The history of the King's Works Vol2: the Middle Ages (London: HMSO) p988-9
Greenslade, M.W. and Midgley, L.M., 1959 in Midgley, L.M. (ed), VCH Staffordshire Vol5 p57 - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=53397
Lynam, C., 1908, in Page, Wm. (ed), VCH Staffordshire Vol1 p359
Shaw, Stebbing, 1801, The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire (J.Nichols abd Son) [Republished 1976 by EP Publishing] Vol2 p313

Journal Articles

Duignan, W.H., 1884, 'On The King's house and The Priory at Radmore, on Cannock Chase' The Midland Antiquary Vol3 p58-66

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