What is recorded here

Thundridge Old Church Tower is a castle, fort or tower in East Hertfordshire, England. Perhaps it guarded a narrow lane where carts rumbled at dawn. Maybe its stones still hold the heat of hands that built them. Imagine a keeper lighting a lamp before storms broke the valley.

A named place photographed at this map point in East Hertfordshire.

Thundridge Old Church Tower is part of the remains of a Norman church, originally built in the 12th century, and is associated with the historic site of Thundridge Castle, which was held by the de Lacy family. The tower is important as a rare surviving example of early medieval ecclesiastical architecture in Hertfordshire.