Brewood Manor of Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield

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

Residential manor of the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, C11-C16. A licence to inclose a park was granted in 1200.

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

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SJ88370870

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; 75063

Books

Thompson, M.W., 1998, Medieval bishops' houses in England and Wales (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) p173
Greenslade, M.W. and Midgley, L.M., 1959 in Midgley, L.M. (ed), VCH Staffordshire Vol5 p25-7 - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=53395
Shaw, Stebbing, 1801, The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire (J.Nichols abd Son) [Republished 1976 by EP Publishing] Vol2 p292-3

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

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/warkseng.html#staf4]

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