Castles and forts in South Cambridgeshire
The Discover Alone map has 7 castles and forts in South Cambridgeshire, England. Below are the 7 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Giant's HillCastleGiant's Hill in Rampton is an abandoned castle earthwork built during The Anarchy by forces of King Stephen to contain…- John o'Gaunt's House: a motte castle and moated site 300m NE of Haygate FarmScheduled monumentJohn o'Gaunt's House was a moated castle where Warin de Bassingbourn built a crenellated stone residence in 1266…
- Giant's Hill: a motte castle with part of an earlier medieval settlement and associated field systemScheduled monumentGiant's Hill is a motte castle in Cambridgeshire built during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, yet its earthwork…
- Deserted medieval site adjoining Castle CampsScheduled monumentMedieval hands shaped the flat pasture beside Castle Camps into house platforms, a deep hollow way and quarry pits…
- 'Castle Hill' earthworksScheduled monumentCastle Hill earthworks in South Cambridgeshire, England: a scheduled monument, recorded on the National Heritage List…
- A ringwork and bailey castle, and 17th century formal garden remains, at Bourn HallScheduled monumentBourn Hall in South Cambridgeshire holds a ringwork castle and the buried lines of a 17th century formal garden, marked…
- Camps CastleScheduled monumentThe National Heritage List for England records Camps Castle as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the…