The Gatehouse. The comprehensive listing of medieval fortifications and castles in England and Wales.
Home | Books | Links | Fortifications and Castles | Other Information | Help | Downloads | Author Information | Contact

The English Flag

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

Certain
Possible
Questionable
Doubtful
Rejected
Confidence is a statement of the site as a medieval fortification or palace

 

Name Alternative Name(s) Type Remains
Anstey Castle Anstey Hall; Anestie; Anesty Timber Castle
Masonry Castle
Masonry footings
Anstey Hales Farm Hales Hill Timber Castle Earthworks
Anstey Village Defences Urban Defence Earthworks
Ashridge Palace Masonry ruins/remnants
Barrowfield, Great Amwell Timber Castle Earthworks
Benington Castle Bennington; The Lordship; Benyngton Timber Castle
Masonry Castle
Masonry footings
Benington Village Defences Bennington Urban Defence Earthworks
Berkhamsted Castle Berkhampstead, Berkhamstead Timber Castle
Masonry Castle
Masonry ruins/remnants
Berkhamsted Seigeworks Siege Work Earthworks
Brent Pelham, Cole Green Timber Castle Earthworks
Broxbornebury Park, Hoddesdon Timber Castle Earthworks
Broxbourne Manor of the Bishop of London Palace Nothing visible
Bygrave House Masonry Castle Earthworks
Clothall Castle Timber Castle Earthworks
Golden Parsonage, Great Gaddesden Timber Castle Earthworks
Great Munden Roughground Wood; Levens Green Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Hadham Hall Palace Nothing visible
Hatfield; The Palace Old Palace Palace Major
Hertford Castle Hartford Timber Castle
Masonry Castle
Palace
Masonry ruins/remnants
Hertford Town Defences Urban Defence Nothing visible
Hunsdon House Honesdon; Hunsdon Tower Tower House
Palace
Masonry ruins/remnants
Kings Langley Hunting Lodge Palace Earthworks
Kings Langley Royal Palace Palace Earthworks
Kingsbury Castle, St Albans Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Little Hadham, Cailes Castle Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Little Hadham, North of Hadham Hall Timber Castle Earthworks
Much Hadham; The Palace Palace Major
Nuthampstead; The Warren Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Pains End, Anstey Timber Castle Earthworks
Periwinkle Hill, Barkway Periwinkle Hall; Reed Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Pirton Grange Fortified Manor House Earthworks
Pirton Toot Hill Timber Castle Earthworks
Pirton Village Defences Urban Defence Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Preston Castle, Hertfordshire Castle Farm Timber Castle Nothing visible
Rickmansworth; The More Manor of the More; Rykmersworth; Moor Park Fortified Manor House
Palace
Nothing visible
Rye House, Stanstead Abbots Fortified Manor House Major
Sandon; The Mount Timber Castle Earthworks
St Albans Abbey Great Gatehouse Fortified Ecclesiastical site
Palace
Masonry ruins/remnants
St Albans Town Defences Monk Ditch Urban Defence Nothing visible
Standon, Hertfordshire Rennesley Gardenwood; Wadesmill Timber Castle Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Therfield Castle Timber Castle Earthworks
Therfield Village Defences Urban Defence Earthworks
Totteridge Manor of the Bishop of Ely Palace Earthworks
Tyttenhanger Palace Tyttenhangar; Tytenhanger Palace Nothing visible
Walkern Walkern Bury; Bassus Green Timber Castle
Masonry Castle
Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Watton Danesfield; Well and Chapel Woods Timber Castle Earthworks
Waytemore Castle, Bishops Stortford Weytemore; Storteford Timber Castle
Masonry Castle
Masonry footings
Wheathampstead Castle Meadows; Creswell Farm Timber Castle Nothing visible
Widford Barrow Hill Timber Castle Earthworks
Wymondley Castle Great Wymondley Timber Castle Earthworks

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

Home | Books | Links | Fortifications and Castles | Other Information | Help | Downloads | Author Information | Contact
¤¤¤¤¤