Risinghoe Castle Mills

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Goldington

In the civil parish of Bedford.
In the historic county of Bedfordshire (Modern Authority of Bedfordshire, 1974 county of Bedfordshire).

Motte, mentioned as old in 1180-1200. There is only documentary evidence for a bailey but the motte is about 20ft high and looks much like a barrow. Nothing found in excavation done in 1943.

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

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TL09035090

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; 360546

• Web site links
  • http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_midlands/153/goldingtoncastle.htm
• Books
  • Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of The Thames Valley and The Chilterns (Malvern) p15
    Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p4 [slight]
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p5
    Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker)
    Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1968, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough p93
    Wadmore, Beauchamp, 1920, The Earthworks of Bedfordshire (Bedford) (Bedford) p241-3
    Page, Wm (ed), 1912, 'Parishes: Goldington', VCH Bedford Vol3 p202-9 [mainly manorial history http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42415]
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
    Doubleday, H.Arthur and Page, Wm (eds), 1904, VCH Bedford Vol1 p285, 196-7
    Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England Vol1 p141
    Lysons, D. and S., 1806, Magna Britannia Vol1 p89
• Journal Articles
  • Baker, D., 1982, 'Mottes, Moats and ringworks in Bedfordshire: Beauchamp Wadmore revisited' Château Gaillard Vol9-10 p35-54 [plan]
    Monkhouse, 1854, Assoc. Archit. Socies. Vol3 p175-82
• Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
  • Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p21, 23, 24
    Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol1 p101; Vol4 p22