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List of the Medieval Fortified Sites of the historic county of Essex

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Confidence is a statement of the site as a medieval fortification or palace

 

Name Alternative Name(s) Type Remains
Apechilde Absol Park; Absolpark; Chignal Smealy Fortified Manor House Earthworks
Beaulieu Palace, Boreham New Hall; Convent and School of the Cannonesses of the Holy Sepulchre; Walkfares Palace
Fortified Manor House
Masonry ruins/remnants
Berden Bishops Manor Berdon Palace Nothing visible
Berden; The Crump Stock Farm, Stock's Farm Timber Castle Earthworks
Berden; The Rookery Cumber Hills Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Birch Castle Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Bocking Mill Hill Timber Castle Earthworks
Braintree Bishops Palace Chapel Hill; Parsonage Farm Palace Earthworks
Brightlingsea Artillery Fort Nothing visible
Brimstone Hill, Barling Magna Brymshoo Timber Castle
Fortified Manor House
Earthworks
Canfield Castle, Great Canfield Castle Canfield Timber Castle Earthworks
Castle Hedingham Town Ditch Urban Defence Nothing visible
Chipping Ongar Town Defences Urban Defence Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Chrishall Park Wood Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Clavering Castle Timber Castle
Masonry Castle
Earthworks
Colchester Castle Masonry Castle Major
Colchester Town Wall Urban Defence Major
Copford Hall Palace Nothing visible
Depeden Depden; Debden Fortified Manor House Nothing visible
Down Hall Motte Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Dunmow Castle Timber Castle Nothing visible
East Ham Hall Estham Fortified Manor House Nothing visible
East Tilbury Blockhouse, Coalhouse Point Tylbery Artillery Fort Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Elmdon Castle Grove Timber Castle Earthworks
Faulkbourne Hall Falkbourne; Falkeburn Fortified Manor House Major
Gidea Hall Gydihall by Ramford Fortified Manor House Nothing visible
Grays 1 Artillery Fort Nothing visible
Grays 2 Artillery Fort Nothing visible
Great Easton Castle Timber Castle Earthworks
Great Ilford Lavender Mount Uphall Camp Timber Castle
Urban Defence
Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Great Stambridge South Church Hall Fortified Manor House Earthworks
Hadleigh Castle Hatheleg; Hadleg Masonry Castle Masonry ruins/remnants
Harlow Mill Latton Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Harlowbury Abbots Palace Harlowbury House Palace Masonry ruins/remnants
Harwich Castle Herewiche Masonry Castle Nothing visible
Harwich Town Defences Herewycz Urban Defence Nothing visible
Harwich; The Blockhouse of the Tower Harwich Castle, The Castle Tower Artillery Fort Nothing visible
Harwich; The Bulwark upon the Hill Beacon Hill, Queen's Mount, Dunn Bulwark Artillery Fort Nothing visible
Harwich; The Middle House or Bulwark Artillery Fort Nothing visible
Havering Palace Havering-atte-Bower Palace Nothing visible
Hedingham Castle Hengham; Hedningham; Heningham; Henham Timber Castle
Masonry Castle
Major
Ingatestone Hall Ingat Stone alias Ging ad Petram; Inge Petre Hall Fortified Manor House Major
Kelvedon Abbots Palace Knights Templars Terrace; Old Red Lion; The White Lion Palace Earthworks
Killegrews, Margaretting Shenfields Fortified Manor House Masonry ruins/remnants
King Johns Palace, Writtle Writele Palace
Fortified Manor House
Earthworks
Little Easton Moat Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Little Sampford Moat Timber Castle Earthworks
Magdalen Laver Motte Timber Castle Earthworks
Maldon Moot Hall Tower House Masonry ruins/remnants
Maldon Town Walls Maldun Urban Defence Nothing visible
Manhale Manhall, Emanuel Wood, Emmanuel Wood, Paddocks Wood Fortified Manor House Uncertain
Manningtree Town Defences Urban Defence Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Marshalls House Motte, Romford Timber Castle Nothing visible
Mersea Stone, East Mersea Mersea Island, Cudmore Grove Artillery Fort Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Mount Bures Timber Castle Earthworks
Mount Bures Village Enclosure Urban Defence Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Navestock Side, Bentley Timber Castle Nothing visible
Navestock Slades Timber Castle Earthworks
Netherhall, Roydon Nether Hall Fortified Manor House Masonry ruins/remnants
New Hall, High Roothing Newhall-Jocelyn Fortified Manor House Earthworks
Newport Castle, Essex Timber Castle
Masonry Castle
Nothing visible
Ongar Castle Angra; Angre Masonry Castle
Timber Castle
Earthworks
Orsett, Bishop Bonners Palace Timber Castle
Palace
Earthworks
Pebmarsh Manor House Fortified Manor House Nothing visible
Pepper Mill Hill, Bulmer Tye Peppermint Hill Timber Castle Earthworks
Pleshey Castle The Mount; Plaisy; Pleasing; Tumblestoun; Castel de Placeto Masonry Castle
Timber Castle
Earthworks
Pleshey Town Defences Urban Defence Earthworks
Plumberow Mount, Hockley Timber Castle Earthworks
Portingbury Hills Beggarshall Coppice Timber Castle Earthworks
Prittlewell Camp Pritwell; Fossets Mounds, Smithers Farm; The Look Out Timber Castle Earthworks
Purfleet Artillery Fort Nothing visible
Purleigh Mount Timber Castle Earthworks
Pyrgo Palace Pirgo Palace Palace Nothing visible
Quarkers Mount, Bannister Green Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Queen Elizabeths Hunting Lodge, Chingford Great Standing; Great Standynge Palace Major
Rayleigh Mount Rayleigh Castle Masonry Castle
Timber Castle
Earthworks
Rayleigh Town Defences Urban Defence Nothing visible
Rickling Hall Motte Timber Castle Earthworks
Rowley Hill, Sturmer Timber Castle Earthworks
Saffron Walden Castle Masonry Castle Masonry ruins/remnants
Saffron Walden Town Defences Repell Ditches, Battle Ditches; Magnum Fossatum Urban Defence Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Sheering Hall Ringwork Timber Castle Earthworks
St Anns, Great Leighs St Annes; Leigh Timber Castle Nothing visible
St Osyth Blockhouse Artillery Fort Nothing visible
St Osyth Seigework Siege Work Uncertain
Stansted Hall, Essex Stanstede Fortified Manor House
Palace
Nothing visible
Stansted Mountfitchet Castle Stansted Mount Fitchet Masonry Castle
Timber Castle
Earthworks
Stebbing; The Mount Timber Castle Earthworks
Steeple Timber Castle Nothing visible
Terling Place Ringers Farmhouse Palace Nothing visible
Thorndon Old Hall, West Horndon West Thorndon Fortified Manor House Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Tilbury Town Defences Urban Defence Nothing visible
Waltham Abbey Fortified Ecclesiastical site Masonry ruins/remnants
Wanstead House Wanstead Hall Palace Nothing visible
West Tilbury Blockhouse, Tilbury Fort The Hermitage Bulwark; Thermitage Bullwark; Johnes Bulwark; Tylbery Artillery Fort Nothing visible
Wickham Bishops Bishops Palace Palace Masonry ruins/remnants
Willingale Doe Willingdale; Torrells Hall Timber Castle Earthworks
Witham Blunts Hall Timber Castle
Fortified Manor House
Earthworks
Witham Town Defences Wulverford; Burgate Field; Rivenhall End; Chippinghill; Clipping Hill Camp Urban Defence Uncertain

This listing was last updated on Friday, April 6, 2007

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