Caistor Town Defences

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Castor

In the civil parish of Caistor.
In the historic county of Lincolnshire (Modern Authority of Lincolnshire, 1974 county of Lincolnshire).

Medieval borough, mentioned in the Domesday Book and Danelaw Charters and Pipe Rolls of 1197-8. Barley lists as town defences of stone walls of Roman origin. PastScape records the 'small fortified Roman town' and the medieval borough but not medieval defences.

This site has been described as a;
Urban Defence.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Nothing visible remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TA11680130

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; 925982, 80330

Books

Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p264
Barley, M.W., 1975, 'Town Defences in England and Wales after 1066' in Barley (ed) Medieval Towns in England and Wales (CBA research reports) pp57-71

Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/lincseng.html#lincs24]
Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p304

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