Castles and forts in Buckinghamshire
The Discover Alone map has 22 castles and forts in Buckinghamshire, England. Below are the 22 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Pulpit Hill FortFortTwo thousand years of rain have softened the ramparts of Pulpit Hill Fort into gentle green ridges, yet the ancient…
Mursley Water TowerCastle, fort or towerMursley Water Tower is a castle, fort or tower in Buckinghamshire, England. Perhaps it stood as a quiet guard over the…
Green Hailey Water TowerCastle, fort or towerNo more than two cottages, a farm and a water tower still stand in Green Hailey, yet the small Buckinghamshire place…
Ellesborough Church TowerCastle, fort or towerEllesborough Church Tower is a castle, fort or tower in Buckinghamshire, England. Perhaps it watched the village from…
Elephant and Castle Pub - Amersham Old TownCastle, fort or towerElephant and Castle Pub - Amersham Old Town is a castle, fort or tower in Buckinghamshire, England. Perhaps elephants…
Dinton FollyCastleDinton Folly is an octagonal castle built in 1769 by Sir John Vanhatten to display fossil collections inside its…
Desborough CastleScheduled monumentDesborough Castle is a Norman ringwork built beside a bowl barrow and inside a possible Iron Age hillfort, proving that…
Cymbeline's CastleFortVictorian writers invented the Cymbeline story to make the Norman fort sound like a Celtic last stand, but the…
Crumbling TowerCastle, fort or towerCrumbling Tower is a castle, fort or tower in Buckinghamshire, England. Perhaps stones still stand where scaffolding…
Coleshill Water TowerCastle, fort or towerColeshill Water Tower rose thirty metres above Buckinghamshire in 1915, forcing water through copper pipes to Amersham…
Church Tower, Pitstone Church EndCastle, fort or towerChurch Tower, Pitstone Church End is a castle, fort or tower in Buckinghamshire, England. Perhaps the tower watched…
Castle HillArchaeological placeCastle Hill is a crescent-shaped mound in the garden of Castle Hill House, Buckinghamshire, now believed to be a…
Denham Aerodrome Control TowerCastle, fort or towerDenham Aerodrome Control Tower is a castle, fort or tower in Buckinghamshire, England. Perhaps it watched the sky for…- The Castle, a moated site at Oaken Corner in Wendover WoodsScheduled monumentBlack water still circles the broken castle at Oaken Corner, keeping the wooden hall, its halls and every choice made…
- Motte castle known as Dane's Camp 400m south of Hampden HouseScheduled monumentMotte castle known as Dane's Camp 400m south of Hampden House remains a scheduled monument in Buckinghamshire, England.…
- Motte castle and associated remains of the medieval village of Cublington, immediately west of Ridings WayScheduled monumentMotte castle and associated remains of the medieval village of Cublington, immediately west of Ridings Way is a…
- Motte and bailey castle, moated site and Roman villa immediately east of All Saint's ChurchScheduled monumentMotte and bailey castle, moated site and Roman villa immediately east of All Saint's Church is a scheduled monument in…
- Cymbeline's Castle: a motte and bailey castle 550m south west of Ellesborough churchScheduled monumentCymbeline's Castle stands 550m south west of Ellesborough church as a motte and bailey, its earthworks still shaping…
- Castle Tower: a motte and bailey castle 100m north of Hill HouseScheduled monumentCastle Tower stands as a motte and bailey castle 100m north of Hill House, a scheduled monument in Buckinghamshire. Its…
- Castle Hill, a motte and bailey castle 900m NNE of All Saint's ChurchScheduled monumentCastle Hill stands as a motte and bailey castle nine hundred metres north-northeast of All Saint's Church, marked as a…
- Castle Hill, a motte and bailey castle and Saxon burial 50m west of Castle Hill HouseScheduled monumentCastle Hill in Buckinghamshire holds a motte and bailey castle beside a Saxon burial, marking a place where martial…
- Bolebec Castle, a motte and bailey castle 300m west of St John's ChurchScheduled monumentBolebec Castle stands as a Norman-period motte and bailey 300m west of St John's Church, its substantial earthwork…