Whitwick Castle, Coalville (The Gatehouse Record)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Scheduled Monument Number 1012555, Legacy Scheduled Monument Number 17070
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 920487.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) MLE4541.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- YouTube video
Books
- Knox, Richard, 2015, 'The medieval fortified sites of Leicestershire and Rutland' in Medieval Leicestershire: Recent research on the Medieval Archaeology of Leicester (Liecestershire Fieldworks 3) p. 123-42
  Cantor, Leonard, 2003, The Scheduled Ancient Monument of Leicestershire and Rutland (Leicester: Kairos Press) p. 39
  Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of the East Midlands (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 43
  Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p. 141 (slight)
  Coulson, Charles, 1994, 'The Castles of the Anarchy' in King, Edmund (ed.), The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign (Oxford University Press) p. 73
  Salter, Mike, 1993, Midlands Castles (Birmingham) p. 92
  Hartley, R.F., 1984, The Medieval Earthworks of North-West Leicestershire (Leicester: Leicestershire Museums, Art Galleries and Records Service) p. 48
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 255
  Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p. 318
  Renn, D.F., 1973 (2 edn.), Norman Castles of Britain (London: John Baker) p. 345
  Kinross, John, 1973, Discovering Castles in England and Wales (Shire Publications) p. 103
  Stenton, Frank, 1932, The First Century of English Feudalism, 1066-1166 (Oxford University Press) p. 250-6
  Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (London: Methuen and Co)
  Wall, C., 1907, 'Ancient Earthworks' in Page, Wm, (ed), VCH Leicestershire Vol. 1 p. 261-2 (plan) online copy
  Mackenzie, J.D., 1896, Castles of England; their story and structure (New York: Macmillan) Vol. 1 p. 419 online copy
  Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol. 3 Part 2 p. 408 online copy
  Nichols, J., 1804, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicestershire Vol. 3 p. 112n
Periodical Articles
- Creighton, O.H., 1997, 'Early Leicestershire Castles: Archaeology and Landscape History' Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 71 p. 21-36 online copy
  Coulson, Charles, 1995, 'The French Matrix of the Castle-Provisions of the Chester-Leicester conventio' Anglo-Norman Studies Vol. 17 p. 65-86
  King, Edmund, 1980, 'Mountsorrel and Its Region in King Stephen's Reign' Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 44, No. 1 p. 1-10 view online copy (subscription required)
  Cantor, Leonard, 1977-8, 'The Medieval Castles of Leicestershire' Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 53 p. 38 online copy
  Brown, R. Allen, 1959, 'A List of Castles, 1154–1216' The English Historical Review Vol. 74 p. 249-280 (Reprinted in Brown, R. Allen, 1989, Castles, conquest and charters: collected papers (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p. 90-121) view online copy (subscription required)
  Farnham, G., 1927-28, 'Charnwood Forest: The Charnnwood Manors' Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 15 p. 231, 236, 238 online copy
  Tollemache, A.F., 1893, 'Whitwick Castle' Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries Vol. 2 p. 13-15 online copy
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Stenton, Frank, 1932, The First Century of English Feudalism, 1066-1166 (Oxford University Press) p. 250-6 (Treaty between Earls of Chester and Leicester c. 1148-53)
  Hardy, T.D. (ed), 1835, Rotuli Litterarum Patentium in Turri Londinensi Asservati (1201-16) (Record Commission) p. 48 view online copy
  Hardy, T.D. (ed), 1833, Rotuli litterarum clausarum in turri Londinensi asservati (Record Commission) Vol. 1 p. 13 online copy
  Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1903, Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward II (1317-21) Vol. 3 p. 571 online copy
Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p. 280
  Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1907, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (London: Bell and Sons) Vol. 1 p. 18 online copy
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Creighton, O.H., 1998, Castles and Landscapes: An Archaeological Survey of Yorkshire and the East Midlands (PhD Thesis University of Leicester) p. 400 online copy

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