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The Lists of Medieval Fortified Sites of England and Wales

For lists of the medieval fortifications by historic county or by type click on the links below. These lists link directly to the individual sites.

England

Medieval Fortifications of England	TC	MC	SW	P	FMH	TH	PT	B	AF	E	TW	CT	LD	U
Certain	735	464	25	153	179	117	224	185	99	41	142	11	5	0
Possible	499	85	22	307	496	60	197	289	44	67	128	1	14	18
Total	1234	549	47	460	675	177	421	474	143	108	270	12	19	18
Questionable	277	18	16	17	61	8	31	18	5	8	20	0	2	25
Reject	126	10	2	0	22	3	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	12
Total	403	28	18	17	83	11	37	19	5	8	22	0	2	37
Grand Total	1637	577	65	477	758	188	458	493	148	116	292	12	21	55
TYPE	Key				FMH	Fortified Manor House				E	Fortified church or monastery
	TC	Timber Castle			TH	Tower House				TW	Town or village defence
	MC	Masonry Castle			PT	Pele Tower				CT	Chain Tower
	SW	Siege Work			B	Bastle				LD	Linear defence of dyke
	P	Palace			AF	Artillery fort				U	Uncertain type

Listed by Historic Counties (strictly the county as on the 1st edition OS map)

• Bedfordshire
• Berkshire
• Berwick upon Tweed (Not part of any county)
• Buckinghamshire
• Cambridgeshire
• Cheshire
• Cornwall
• Cumberland (Greenrigg, Dumfriesshire, is sometimes wrongly located in Cumberland)
• Derbyshire
• Devon
• Dorset
• County Palatinate of Durham
• North Durham (Those parts of Durham isolated within Northumberland and at the far north of modern Northumberland)
• Essex
• Gloucestershire
• Hampshire (includes the Isle of Wight)
• Herefordshire
• Hertfordshire
• Huntingdonshire
• Isles of Scilly
• Kent
• Lancashire
• Leicestershire
• Lincolnshire
• The City of London
• Middlesex
• Norfolk
• Northamptonshire
• Northamptonshire (The Soke of Peterborough)
• Northumberland
• Nottinghamshire
• Oxfordshire
• Rutland
• Shropshire
• Somerset
• Staffordshire
• Suffolk
• Surrey
• Sussex
• Warwickshire
• Westmorland
• Wiltshire
• Worcestershire
• Yorkshire - Location uncertain
• Yorkshire - Ainsty and the City of York
• Yorkshire - East Riding
• Yorkshire - North Riding
• Yorkshire - West Riding
• Uncertain

Type

• Timber Castle (Mottes and Ringworks)
• Masonry Castle
• Siege Work
• Palace (Royal and episcopal residential manors and hunting lodges)
• Fortified Manor House
• Tower House
• Pele Tower
• Bastle
• Artillery Fort or Bulwark
• Fortified Ecclesiastical Site (churches and monasteries)
• Urban Defences (town walls, banks, ditches, gates etc.)
• Chain or Boom Towers
• Linear defences or dykes
• Uncertain sites (There is a degree of uncertainty with many sites but these are sites with significant doubt as to the type of site, such as the historical reference to Goseford Castle.)

Wales

Medieval Fortifications of Wales	TC	MC	SW	P	FMH	TH	PT	B	AF	E	TW	U
Certain	278	172	2	10	19	1	5	0	2	3	32	2
Possible	187	33	6	16	17	9	12	6	0	15	29	44
Total	465	205	8	26	36	10	17	6	2	18	61	46
Questionable	108	6	3	2	13	1	1	1	0	1	4	44
Reject	82	9	0	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	14
Total	190	15	3	3	18	1	1	1	0	1	5	58
Grand Total	655	220	11	29	54	11	18	7	2	19	66	104
TYPE	TC	Timber Castle			FMH	Fortified Manor House			AF	Artillery fort
	MC	Masonry Castle			TH	Tower House			E	Fortified church or monastery
	SW	Siege Work			PT	Pele Tower			TW	Town or village defence
	P	Palace			B	Bastle			U	Uncertain type

Listed by Historic Counties (strictly the county as on the 1st edition 6" OS map)

• Angelsey
• Brecknockshire (Breconshire)
• Caernarfonshire
• Cardiganshire
• Carmarthenshire
• Denbighshire
• Flintshire
• Glamorgan
• Merioneth
• Monmouthshire
• Montgomeryshire
• Pembrokeshire
• Radnorshire
• Uncertain

Type

• Timber Castle (Mottes and Ringworks)
• Masonry Castle
• Siege Work
• Palace (Royal and episcopal residential manors and hunting lodges)
• Fortified Manor House
• Tower House
• Pele Tower
• Bastle
• Artillery Fort or Bulwark
• Fortified Ecclesiastical Site (churches and monasteries)
• Urban Defences (town walls, banks, ditches, gates etc.)
• Uncertain sites

The Islands

Fortifications of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands