Eddisbury Town Defences

In the civil parish of Delamere.
In the historic county of Cheshire (Modern Authority of Cheshire, 1974 county of Cheshire).

Creighton and Higham write 'no significant above ground remains of former medieval town defences or gates at …Eddisbury' Presumable this is the C10 burghal fort built with an Iron Age hill fort, which is Bond's list of 'New Anglo-Saxon burghal forts of no later urban significance'. In 914 AD Eddisbury is documented as a Saxon burh, although it was probably only short-lived since there was no mint there. However, the hillfort has considerable above ground remains and Creighton and Higham may be referring to something else though I'm unable to concluded as to what.

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.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SJ55326933

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; 71146

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 868, 867

Books

Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p266
Cocroft, W.D. et al, 1989, 'Castle Ditch hillfort, Eddisbury, Cheshire, reconsidered : the excavations of 1935-38 in the light of recent field survey' in Bowden, M. et al (eds), From Cornwall to Caithness: some aspects of British field archaeology: papers presented to Norman V. Quinnell p129-35
Bond, C.J., 1987, 'Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Defences' in Schofield, J. and Leech, R. (eds) Urban Archaeology in Britain (CBA Research Report) p92-116
Harris, B.E. and Thacker, A.T. (eds), 1987, VCH Cheshire Vol1 p250, 288
Dodgson, J.McN., 1970-1981, The Place-Names of Cheshire Vol3 p213

Journal Articles

Varley, W.J., 1950, 'Excavations of the castle ditch, Eddisbury, 1935-1938' Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Vol102 p1-68

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