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List of the medieval fortified sites of the historic county of Hertfordshire

Certain
Probable
Questionable or Doubtful
Rejected
Confidence is a statement of the site as a medieval fortification or palace
Name
Alternative Name(s)
Type
Remains
Anstey Castle Anstey Hall; Anestie; Anesty Timber Castle , Masonry Castle masonry footings
Anstey Village Defences Urban Defence earthwork
Ashridge palace Ashridge House Palace masonry ruins/remnants
Benington Castle Bennington; The Lordship; Benyngton; Beningtuna; Turrim de Beninton' Timber Castle , Masonry Castle masonry footings
Berkhamsted Castle Berkhampstead; Berkhamstead; Great Berkhamsted; Berchamstede; Berghhamsted Timber Castle , Masonry Castle masonry ruins/remnants
Berkhamsted siegeworks Siege Work earthwork
Buckland moat Timber Castle , Fortified Manor House earthwork
Bygrave House Fortified Manor House , Palace earthwork
Clothall Castle Timber Castle , Fortified Manor House earthwork
Hadham Hall Palace , Fortified Manor House major building
Hatfield Old Palace Palace major building
Hertford Castle Hartford Timber Castle , Masonry Castle , Palace masonry ruins/remnants
Hertford Town Defences Urban Defence no visible
Hunsdon House Honesdon; Hunsdon Tower; Turris manerij de Howndesdon Fortified Manor House , Palace , Tower House masonry ruins/remnants
Kings Langley Hunting Lodge Little London Palace earthwork
Kings Langley Royal Palace Palace earthwork
Kingsbury Castle, St Albans Castro de Kyngsbury; Kyngisbiri Timber Castle , Palace , Urban Defence cropmark/slight earthwork
Little Gaddesden Church Meadow earthworks Timber Castle , Fortified Manor House cropmark/slight earthwork
Much Hadham The Palace Bishop's Folly Palace major building
Periwinkle Hill, Barkway Periwinkle Hall; Reed Timber Castle cropmark/slight earthwork
Pirton Toot Hill Timber Castle earthwork
Pirton Village Defences Urban Defence cropmark/slight earthwork
Rickmansworth; The More Manor of the More; Rykmersworth; Moor Park Palace , Fortified Manor House no visible
Rye House, Stanstead Abbots Fortified Manor House major building
St Albans Abbey Great Gatehouse Palace , Fortified Ecclesiastical site masonry ruins/remnants
St Albans Town Defences Monk Ditch Urban Defence no visible
Standon Lordship The Lordship Fortified Manor House masonry ruins/remnants
Therfield Castle Tuthill Timber Castle earthwork
Therfield Village Defences Urban Defence earthwork
Tyttenhanger Palace Tyttenhangar; Tytenhanger Palace no visible
Walkern Bury Bassus Green Timber Castle , Masonry Castle cropmark/slight earthwork
Waytemore Castle, Bishops Stortford Weytemore; Storteford; Estorteford Timber Castle , Masonry Castle , Palace masonry footings
Well and Chapel Woods, Watton Danesfield Timber Castle , Fortified Manor House earthwork
Widford Barrow Hill Timber Castle earthwork
Wymondley Castle Great Wymondley Timber Castle earthwork
Anstey Hales Farm Hales Hill Timber Castle , Fortified Manor House earthwork
Ardeley Bury moated site Timber Castle , Fortified Manor House earthwork
Barrowfield, Great Amwell Gallows Plain Timber Castle earthwork
Benington Village Defences Bennington Urban Defence earthwork
Brent Pelham, Cole Green Timber Castle earthwork
Broxbourne Manor of the Bishop of London Palace no visible
Danesbury, Hertford Warren Field; Port Hill Timber Castle cropmark/slight earthwork
Golden Parsonage, Great Gaddesden Timber Castle earthwork
Great Munden Roughground Wood; Levens Green Timber Castle cropmark/slight earthwork
Hoddesdon Bury Cock Lane mound Broxbornebury Park; Hoddesdonbury Timber Castle earthwork
Little Hadham, Cailes Castle Uncertain cropmark/slight earthwork
Little Hadham, North of Hadham Hall Timber Castle earthwork
Nuthampstead; The Warren Timber Castle cropmark/slight earthwork
Pains End, Anstey Fortified Manor House earthwork
Pirton Grange Fortified Manor House major building
Preston Castle, Hertfordshire Castle Farm Masonry Castle no visible
Rennesley Garden Wood, Hertfordshire Rennesley Gardenwood; Wadesmill; Standon Timber Castle cropmark/slight earthwork
Sandon; The Mount Timber Castle earthwork
Totteridge Manor of the Bishop of Ely Palace earthwork
Wheathampstead Castle Meadows; Creswell Farm Timber Castle no visible

This listing was last updated on Sunday, August 27, 2017


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