Ring and bailey or motte and bailey seen as earthworks. The castle mound is scarped out of the natural slope of the spur to enclose a sub-oval area about 80 metres north to south by about 60 metres east to west. Only in the north arc is an inner counter-scarp bank 0.8 metres in height. […]
Boarstall Tower
14th-century moated gatehouse, built by John de Haudlo and once part of a fortified manor house, set in gardens. The property, owned by the National Trust is tenanted. Boarstall was so called from the legend of a wild boar that was killed (temp. Edward the Confessor) by one Nigel, a forester, in the ancient forest […]
Yielden Castle
The scheduled monument includes the remains of a medieval castle mound with baileys to the north and west, and a series of banked and ditched enclosures arranged along its eastern side. Yielden Castle, on the borders of Northamptonshire, was, at the time of Domesday Survey, the seat of the Barons of Traylly. Their castle is […]
Risinghoe Castle
A 12th century motte and bailey castle. There is only documentary evidence for a bailey but the motte is about 20 feet high and looks much like a barrow. (Pastscape) The remains are visible from the road. There was in Goldington, two miles N.E. from Bedford, on the Ouse, a possession of the Beauchamps, though […]
Odell Castle
The mutilated earthwork remains of Odell Castle, a Motte and Bailey with a stone keep was described as a ruin in the 16th century by Leland. A new residence was built in 1623, using the remains of the keep and was altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. The present residence was built 1962. All […]