More information : [SP 2991 8005] CASTLE [G.T.] (Site of) [MOAT] [G.T.] (1)
'At Allesley there is a ring earthwork, which is pointed out as a castle and may be another of the same kind as Castle Hills, Fillongley.'
Dugdale says: 'Upon the brow of an hill, in the Park here at Allesley, do appear some ruins of buildings, which as the inhabitants say, were of a Castle; but in Record 1 cannot find, that it was ever so termed.' Presumably it is to this earthwork he refers, though to day there is no trace of a building. The earthworks consist of a circular platform about 150 ft. across surrounded by a dry ditch 5 or 6 ft. deep, the excavated soil from which was thrown up on the outside forming a bank about 4 ft. high for about two thirds of its circumference. The whole site is thickly covered with large trees and it is difficult to observe the detail of the earthwork. (2)
A circular castle mound surrounded by the remains of a moat with an outer rampart to the south. Generally as described above. The surface of the mound is rather uneven but there is no definite trace of an encircling rampart. Of the ruins, referred to by Dugdale (1656), no remains now exist although many small fragments of sandstone are scattered on the surface of the mound. The mound has been dug into on the north, and a brick retaining wall constructed. The moat is now dry. General condition poor and much overgrown. (3)
Description in 3 still correct. Published survey (25" 1948)
revised. (4)
Listed by Cathcart King. (5) |