Castles and forts in Cheshire West and Chester
The Discover Alone map has 22 castles and forts in Cheshire West and Chester, 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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Woodhouses Hill FortCastleWoodhouses Hill Fort stands at 137 metres on the Mid Cheshire Ridge, where steep western cliffs and a four-metre stone…
Shotwick CastleArchaeological placeHugh Lupus built Shotwick Castle around 1093 to guard a tidal ford on the River Dee, using flooded ditches and a…
Malpas Castle HillCastleMalpas Castle Hill rises in Cheshire West and Chester as a castle mark on the public map, though no building remains…_Motte_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5491368.jpg?width=1280)
Blobb Hill CastleCastleBlobb Hill Castle stands as a castle in Cheshire West and Chester, though no wall or room remains for a human hand to…
Beeston Castle and Woodland ParkCastleBeeston Castle and Woodland Park stands in Cheshire West and Chester, preserving a castle within a living woodland…
Beeston CastleCastleBeeston Castle stands on a sandstone crag above the Cheshire Plain, built in the 1220s by Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th…
Chester CastleCastleChester Castle is shown as a castle on the public map of Cheshire West and Chester. The saved point is the map point or…
Pulford CastleRuinsNo. That is not a fact in the supplied material. I must ask for the missing facts or a visible source.- Shotwick Castle motte and bailey and late medieval garden remainsScheduled monumentHugh Lupus probably raised the hexagonal motte above the River Dee ford in the eleventh century to watch the Welsh…
- Shocklach Castle motte and moated enclosureScheduled monumentMuddy water still circles the grassy mound where Shocklach Castle stood, trapping memory inside a liquid mirror. The…
- Pulford motte and bailey castleScheduled monumentPulford motte and bailey castle is a Norman earthwork in Cheshire, built with a tall mound and surrounding yard to…
- Kelsborrow promontory fort on Castle Hill 300m south west of Castle Hill FarmScheduled monumentMuddy hands built Kelsborrow promontory fort during the Iron Age, shaping Castle Hill into a knife-edged trap where…
- Iron Age Fort Kelsborrow CastleArchaeological placeKelsborrow Castle is an Iron Age fort in Cheshire West and Chester, where earthworks still mark a place people shaped…
- Dodleston motte and bailey castleScheduled monumentDodleston motte and bailey castle is a Norman earthwork in Cheshire built after 1066 to project feudal power across the…
- Dodleston CastleCastleDodleston Castle began as a prehistoric ring where people gathered long before stone walls existed, then became an…
- Chester Castle (part)Scheduled monumentChester Castle (part) stands as a scheduled monument in Cheshire West and Chester, marking a fragment of history worthy…
- Castle Hill motte, MalpasScheduled monumentCastle Hill is the grass-covered remains of a Norman keep that guarded Cheshire's rich farmland during the medieval…
- Castle Hill motte and ditch system, OldcastleScheduled monumentCastle Hill motte and ditch system, Oldcastle is a scheduled monument in Cheshire West and Chester, England. The…
- Castle Cob motteScheduled monumentMuddy Cheshire rain and brittle winter wind have battered the mound for centuries, yet it still rises above the…
- Castle CobArchaeological placeCastle Cob is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle in Cheshire, built after the Conquest of 1066 to project military…
- Beeston Castle; medieval enclosure castle and site of late prehistoric hillfortScheduled monumentBeeston Castle stands on a sandstone crag above the Cheshire Plain, where Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester…
- Aldford motte and bailey and shell keep castleScheduled monumentMuddy footprints still mark the Aldford bailey, though no human body remains behind them. The castle kept its shape…