New Radnor Town Defences

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Maes Hyfaidd

In the community of New Radnor.
In the historic county of Radnorshire (Modern authority of Powys, preserved county of Powys).

Town defences, represented by earthworks of a bank, ditch and counterscarp, enclosing a roughly rectagular area, c.500m by 300m, with gates to the N, S. W and E. Best preserved at the SW angle, between SO21256072 to SO21026076. Connected to the N with the castle, where there is an extention, enclosing an area c.150m by 50m, against the E side of the castle. Murage grant in 1257.

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

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SO21246083

Sources of information, references and further reading

Books

Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p27, 46, 80, 273
Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles of Mid Wales (Malvern) p68 [plan]
Pettifer, Adrian, 2000, Welsh Castles, A Guide by Counties (Boydell Press) p180
Silvester, R., 1997, 'New Radnor: the topography of a medieval planned town in mid-Wales' in Edwards, N. (ed), Landscape and Settlement in Medieval Wales (Oxford: Oxbow) p157-164
Remfry, P., 1996, Castles of Radnorshire (Logaston Press) p66-7
Remfry, P., 1995, Ten Castles of the Radnor Lordship (SCS Publishing, Worcester)
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
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p413
Barley M.W., 1975, 'Town Defences in England and Wales after 1066' in Barley (ed) Medieval Towns in England and Wales (CBA research reports) pp57-71
RCAHMW, 1913, An inventory of the Ancient Monuments of Radnorshire (HMSO) p131-2
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co) p248
Davies, Edwin (ed), William, Jonathan, 1905, A General History of the County of Radnor [reprinted from 1858, Archaeologia Cambrensis [ser3] Vol4] plate facing p188

Journal Articles

Hogg, A.H.A. and King, D.J.C., 1967, 'Masonry castles in Wales and the Marches: a list' Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol116 p71-132
Cole, E.J.L., 1957, ‘New Radnor murage grant, 1283’, Transactions of the Radnorshire Society, 27 p25-6

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

William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/hertseng.html#rad2]

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