Castles and forts in Huntingdonshire
The Discover Alone map has 10 castles and forts in Huntingdonshire, England. Below are the 10 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Huntingdon Castle (Castle Hills): a motte and bailey castle and Civil War fieldworkScheduled monumentMuddy feet on Castle Hills, Huntingdonshire: a medieval motte and bailey, then Civil War fieldwork, still marked on the…
Huntingdon CastleArchaeological placeCastle Hill in Huntingdonshire rose from an Anglo-Saxon burh into a motte and bailey castle in 1068, occupying two and…
Bruce's Castle: moated site immediately east of Bruce's Castle FarmScheduled monumentBernard de Brus built the manor around 1242, trapping a square island inside a six-metre moat that still holds water…- Woodwalton CastleArchaeological placeWoodwalton Castle remains as a circular earthwork on a natural hillock at the northern edge of Huntingdonshire, its…
- Washingley Castle (site of)Archaeological placeWashingley Castle (site of) lies hidden in Huntingdonshire, England, preserving a castle that no longer stands. The…
- The Old Manor House, Cretingsbury: a motte castle and moated manor houseScheduled monumentCretingsbury is a Norman motte castle transformed into a vast moated manor for Sir Adam de Creting, who died in 1294.…
- 'The Moat': a motte and bailey castle 700m west of Mayfield Heath FarmScheduled monumentSeven hundred metres west of Mayfield Heath Farm, a raised mound and surrounding ditch still break the flat…
- The Hillings, Castle Hills: a ringwork castle associated with a Saxon vill, shifted medieval village and a windmill moundScheduled monumentCastle Hills and The Hillings hold a ringwork castle beside a Saxon vill, a shifted medieval village and a windmill…
- Motte castle in Kimbolton Park, known as Castle HillScheduled monumentCastle Hill rises in Kimbolton Park as a motte castle, marked as a scheduled monument in Huntingdonshire. The earthwork…
- Castle Hill motte and bailey castleScheduled monumentCastle Hill is a Norman motte and bailey built after 1066, its earthworks still standing in Huntingdonshire. Soldiers…