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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Someries Castle

The upstanding and buried remains of the late medieval magnate's residence known as Someries Castle and the adjacent garden earthworks. The upstanding ...

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Eaton Bray Castle

Eaton Bray once had a moated castle. The moat, today all that remains, is open to the public for fishing at 'Park Farm'. In Victorian times Arthur ...

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Conger Hill Castle

Motte and bailey. An irregular 0.3m deep depression on the east side of the summit of the motte, is thought to indicate the site of buildings on the ...

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Cainhoe Castle

Motte and bailey complex. The motte incorprates a natural sandstone outcrop standing 11m above the floodplain. It is 60m wide at the base and the flat ...

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Bletsoe Castle

Late 16th century country house, reduced from three to two storeys in the 19th century and subsequently modernised. Built of coursed limestone rubble ...

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Bedford Castle

The castle mound stands in public gardens. A motte and bailey castle erected c. 1100-1130; the castle sustained sieges in 1132, 1137, 1145 and 1153 ...

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Ampthill Castle

The area of Ampthill Park (public park) has probably been parkland since the 15th century when Ampthill Castle was built on the crest of the Greensand ...

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Bedford Museum & Cecil Higgins Art Gallery

Winner of Sandford Award in 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003. ...

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