Portsmouth Town Defences (The Gatehouse Record)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Scheduled Monument Number 1008754, Legacy Scheduled Monument Number 20208
National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1386892
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 462076; 859342; 859292.
Further information may be available from the holder of the county Historic Environment Record.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Wikipedia entry
  CastlesFortsBattle.co.uk
  Fortified Places
Books
- Salter, Mike, 2013, Medieval Walled Towns (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 120
  Osborne, Mike, 2011, Defending Hampshire: The Military Landscape from Prehistory to the Present (Stroud: The History Press) p. 245 (listed in Appendix)
  Creighton, O.H. and Higham, R.A., 2005, Medieval Town Walls (Stroud: Tempus) p. 36, 87, 139, 182, 202-3, 214, 225, 257
  Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of Wessex (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 50
  Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p. 88-9
  Bond, C.J., 1987, 'Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Defences' in Schofield, J. and Leech, R. (eds) Urban Archaeology in Britain (CBA Research Report 61) p. 92-116 online copy
  Barron, W.G., 1985, The Castles of Hampshire and Isle of Wight (Paul Cave) p. 41
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 196
  Colvin, H.M. et al, 1982, The history of the King's Works Vol. 4: 1485-1660 (part 2) p. 488-527
  Barley, M.W., 1975, 'Town Defences in England and Wales after 1066' in Barley (ed) The plans and topography of medieval towns in England and Wales (CBA Research Report 14) p. 57-71 download/view online
  Lloyd, D.W., 1974, Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs (Portsmouth) p. 59
  Renn, D.F., 1973 (2 edn.), Norman Castles of Britain (London: John Baker) p. 285
  Turner, H.L., 1971, Town Defences in England and Wales (London) p. 158
  Pevsner, N. and Lloyd, D., 1967, Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (Harmondsworth) p. 422-424
  Corney, A., 1965, Fortifications in Old Portsmouth (Portsmouth) p. 25-29
  Lilley, 1923, Early Portsmouth Defences (Portsmouth)
  Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (London: Methuen and Co)
  Page, Wm (ed), 1908, VCH Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Vol. 3 p. 187-190 online transcription
Periodical Articles
- Creighton, Oliver, 2006, ''Castles of Communities': Medieval Town Defences in England; Wales and Gascony' Château Gaillard Vol. 22 p. 75-86
  Fox, R.T., 1991, 'Portsmouth's ramparts revisited' Fortress: The castles and fortifications quarterly Vol. 11 p. 29-38
  Fox, R.T., 1988, 'Portsmouth — Old Portsmouth, Camber Bastion' Archaeology in Hampshire: Annual Report for 1987 p. 32–4
  Fox, R.T., 1988, 'Portsmouth — Old Portsmouth, the Saluting Platform' Archaeology in Hampshire: Annual Report for 1987 p. 34–6
  Fox, R.T., 1988, 'Portsmouth — Old Portsmouth, Spur Redoubt' Archaeology in Hampshire: Annual Report for 1987 p. 36–7*
  Fox, R.T., 1988, 'Portsmouth — Old Portsmouth, King James' Gate' Archaeology in Hampshire: Annual Report for 1987 p. 38
  Kenyon, J.R., 1981 'Early Artillery Fortifications in England and Wales: a Preliminary Survey and Re-appraisal' The Archaeological Journal Vol. 138 p. 220
  Saunders, A.J., 1966, The Archaeological Journal Vol. 123 p. 142-145, 179-182
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1900, Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward III (1340-43) Vol. 5 p. 562 (murage grant) online copy
  Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1902, Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward III (1343-45) Vol. 6 p. 322 (petition to revoke murage) online copy
  Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1900, Calendar of Patent Rolls Richard II (1385-89) Vol. 3 p. 214 (writ de intendendo to prepare defences) online copy
  Gairdner, J. and Brodie, R.H. (eds), 1896, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII Vol. 15 p. 131 no. 323 online copy
  - Also see the Gatehouse murage pages for full details of murage grants, petitions and other such.
Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Camden, Wm, 1607, Britannia hypertext critical edition by Dana F. Sutton (2004)
  Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p. 208-9
  Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1907, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (London: Bell and Sons) Vol. 1 p. 283 online copy
  Celia Fiennes, 1888, Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press) Vision of Britain online transcription
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Dave Hopkins, 2004, Extensive Urban Survey - Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (English Heritage) Download copy

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