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Whitchurch Castle
Hob Uid: 70997
Location : Shropshire Whitchurch Urban
Grid Ref : SJ5400041500
Summary : The castle at Whitchurch was founded by 1199 and is mentioned again in 1240 and 1260. Part of the curtain wall was still standing in 1760. There are, however, no extant remains.
More information : (Name centred: SJ 54014152) Castle (NR) (site of). (1) William de Warren, Domesday lord of Weston (later Whitchurch) may have founded the Castle here. It is mentioned in 1199 and again in 1240 and 1260. It's name was changed to the Castle of Blackmere (see SJ 54 SE 1) and it passed to the descendants of Robert le Strange. (2) Part of the wall of Whitchurch Castle was standing in 1760, on the Castle Hill, on the side next to the mill. (3) SJ 543415 Listed as a castle and mentioned in 1199 and 1246. (4) (SJ 54134149) ? Remains of castle motte. (5) The mill referred to (by 3) was at the foot of the High Street (at SJ 54214149). The walling, extant in 1760, on the W side of Mill Street, would presumably have been curtain walling, since the castle itself would have been on the highest point, some distance further to the west.(a) There are no extant remains of Whitchurch Castle which probably stood upon the summit of the hill at approx SJ 54024156. The siting by (5) falls within a coal yard; there are no traces of a motte. (6-7) Listed as a vanished castle by Cathcart King. (8)

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Source Number : 1
Source : Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)
Source details : OS 6" 1929
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Source Number : 2
Source : Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Source details : (R W Eyton)
Page(s) : 27-28
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Vol(s) : 10 - 1887

Source Number : 3
Source : Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society
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Page(s) : 61
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Vol(s) : 1895

Source Number : 4
Source : Archaeologia Cambrensis
Source details : (Hogg & King)
Page(s) : 90, 122
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Vol(s) : 112 - 1963

Source Number : 5
Source : Annotated Record Map
Source details : Corr 6" (J R Whitfield undated)
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Source Number : 6
Source : Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments
Source details : Oral: Mr G C Owen Local Historian 13 Edgeley Road Whitchurch 22.3.76
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Source Number : 7
Source : Field Investigators Comments
Source details : F1 ASP 25-MAR-76
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Source Number : 8
Source : Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Volume II : Norfolk-Yorkshire and the islands
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Page(s) : 434
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : built by 1199
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Monument Start Date : 1199
Monument Type : Castle, Motte
Evidence : Ruined Building, Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SJ 54 SW 5
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Related Activities :

Associated Activities : Primary, FIELD OBSERVATION ON SJ 54 SW 5
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1976-03-25
End Date : 1976-03-25

Associated Activities : Primary, NEWTOWN, WHITCHURCH
Activity type : EVALUATION
Start Date : 1996-01-01
End Date : 1996-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Whitchurch Castle