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Charts of the accepted medieval fortifications and palaces of England and Wales listed by historic counties.

Great care must always be taken with such statisical data since much of the source data has a degree of error which, when combined in such statistic can produce very large errors.

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Chart of the accepted (certain and possible) medieval fortifications and palaces in England by historic county.

This is a sortable table; click heading to sort	Timber Only Castle	Timber/ Masonry Castle	New Masonry Castle	Total Castle	Siege Work	Palace	Fortified Manor House	Crenellated Town House	Tower Houses	Pele Tower	Bastle	Artillery Forts	Fortified Abbeys and Churches	Urban Defences	Fortified Bridges	Chain Tower	Linear Defence	Uncertain
Bedfordshire	20	4	2	26	0	3	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0
Berkshire	11	3	1	15	2	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0	0
Buckinghamshire	21	3	0	24	1	12	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
Cambridgeshire	15	5	0	20	0	11	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
Cheshire	14	9	2	25	0	6	14	2	1	2	0	0	1	5	1	0	0	0
Cornwall	13	6	4	23	0	8	23	0	4	1	0	22	2	3	0	3	0	0
Cornwall: mainland	12	6	3	21	0	8	23	0	4	1	0	12	2	3	0	3	0	0
Cornwall: Isles of Scilly	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cumberland	14	9	8	31	0	4	22	1	23	116	124	1	16	3	0	0	4	1
Derbyshire	14	6	1	21	0	4	14	0	3	0	0	0	1	4	1	0	0	0
Devon	22	11	7	40	2	11	31	0	1	1	1	16	3	7	2	2	1	0
Dorset	6	7	4	17	1	10	21	0	0	0	0	7	1	5	0	0	0	0
County Palatinate of Durham	7	4	9	20	1	10	21	0	7	15	11	0	1	2	4	1	0	1
Essex	19	7	4	30	0	14	18	1	0	0	0	10	1	12	0	0	0	1
Gloucestershire	19	16	4	39	1	14	30	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	4	0	0	2
Hampshire	10	8	5	23	3	42	9	0	0	0	0	27	1	8	0	2	0	0
Hampshire: mainland	10	7	5	22	3	41	8	0	0	0	0	13	0	6	0	2	0	0
Hampshire: Isle of Wight	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	14	1	2	0	0	0	0
Herefordshire	59	55	6	120	3	11	36	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	1	0	0	1
Hertfordshire	9	6	0	15	1	12	9	0	1	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	0	0
Huntingdonshire	9	1	0	10	1	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Kent	11	9	10	30	2	33	41	1	2	0	0	20	4	6	1	2	1	0
Lancashire	18	1	8	27	0	1	15	1	9	15	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0
Lancashire: South	16	1	6	23	0	1	14	1	7	9	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0
Lancashire: North of the Sands	2	0	2	4	0	0	1	0	2	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Leicestershire	10	8	1	19	0	2	14	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0
Lincolnshire	30	8	7	45	1	10	25	0	6	0	0	0	7	7	1	0	0	0
London City	0	2	1	3	0	14	0	16	1	0	0	1	0	3	1	0	0	1
Middlesex	5	0	0	5	0	32	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Norfolk	12	7	3	22	0	12	36	3	1	0	0	11	2	6	1	2	2	0
Northamptonshire	22	9	2	33	0	13	28	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0
Northamptonshire: main	20	9	2	31	0	12	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Northamptonshire: Soke of Peterborough	2	0	0	2	0	1	5	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Northumberland	14	21	11	46	2	5	17	1	62	176	362	12	27	10	2	0	5	1
Northumberland: main	13	18	9	40	1	1	16	1	57	155	359	6	24	9	2	0	5	1
Northumberland: North Durham	1	2	2	5	0	3	1	1	5	20	3	5	3	0	0	0	0	0
Northumberland: Berwick upon Tweed	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Nottinghamshire	12	5	1	18	1	13	13	0	3	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
Oxfordshire	9	11	4	24	4	16	21	1	1	0	0	0	0	7	2	0	0	0
Rutland	3	2	0	5	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Shropshire	90	29	6	125	3	9	35	3	2	1	0	0	2	16	3	0	0	4
Somerset	15	12	4	31	2	19	23	0	1	1	0	2	1	7	2	0	0	1
Stafffordshire	11	8	3	22	0	11	26	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	1	0	0	0
Suffolk	18	8	3	29	0	6	40	2	0	1	0	13	1	8	0	0	2	1
Surrey	8	5	2	15	0	27	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
Sussex	13	11	4	28	2	21	29	2	2	0	0	10	4	10	0	0	0	0
Warwickshire	18	8	4	30	1	7	25	1	1	0	0	1	0	3	1	0	0	2
Westmorland	8	3	4	15	0	1	12	0	13	43	2	0	2	3	0	0	1	0
Wiltshire	10	11	3	24	3	19	16	0	1	0	0	0	1	7	0	0	0	0
Worcestershire	13	3	4	20	3	13	17	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	0	0
Yorkshire	80	31	15	126	1	29	124	5	20	18	0	6	9	19	2	2	1	1
Yorkshire: Ainsty and York City	2	2	0	4	0	3	6	2	0	1	0	0	2	2	1	1	0	0
Yorkshire: East Riding	13	3	1	17	0	11	28	3	1	0	0	5	3	5	0	1	0	0
Yorkshire: North Riding	30	13	12	55	1	6	39	0	13	5	0	1	2	6	0	0	1	0
Yorkshire: West Riding	35	13	2	50	0	9	51	0	6	12	0	0	2	6	1	0	0	0
Yorkshire: uncertain location	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
TOTAL	712	372	157	1241	41	501	868	42	169	393	500	160	100	211	36	15	17	17

Chart of the accepted (certain and possible) medieval fortifications and palaces in Wales by historic county.

This is a sortable table; click heading to sort	Timber Only Castle	Timber/ Masonry Castle	New Masonry Castle	Total Castle	Siege Work	Palace	Fortified Manor House	Crenellated Town House	Tower House	Pele Tower	Bastle	Artillery Forts	Fortified Abbeys and Churches	Urban Defences	Fortified Bridges	Chain Tower	Linear Defence	Uncertain
Anglesey	6	0	1	7	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	1
Brecknockshire	21	18	5	44	2	4	4	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	2
Caernarfonshire	8	7	5	20	0	5	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1
Cardiganshire	36	5	1	42	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	2
Carmarthenshire	30	11	3	44	0	3	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	4
Denbighshire	12	2	5	19	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	3
Flintshire	10	5	5	20	1	3	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Glamorgan	39	25	15	79	2	6	19	0	4	2	0	0	3	9	0	0	0	7
Merioneth	14	1	3	18	0	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
Monmouthshire	30	17	11	58	0	4	6	0	0	3	0	0	0	9	1	1	0	0
Montgomeryshire	36	5	3	44	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
Pembrokeshire	42	12	8	62	0	7	9	0	3	12	3	2	2	3	0	0	0	2
Radnorshire	24	19	3	46	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	2
TOTAL	308	127	68	503	7	48	52	0	8	24	3	2	6	54	3	1	0	28

Chart of the accepted (certain and possible) medieval fortifications and palaces in the Islands.

This is a sortable table; click heading to sort	Timber Only Castle	Timber/ Masonry Castle	New Masonry Castle	Total Castle	Siege Work	Palace	Fortified Manor House	Crenellated Town House	Tower House	Pele Tower	Bastle	Artillery Forts	Fortified Abbeys and Churches	Urban Defences	Fortified Bridges	Chain Tower	Linear Defence	Uncertain
Alderney	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Guernsey	1	1	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
Jersey	1	0	2	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sark	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Man	3	2	0	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	2
TOTAL	5	3	4	12	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	12	0	1	0	0	0	2

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Chart of the accepted (certain and possible) medieval fortifications and palaces in England by historic county.

Chart of the accepted (certain and possible) medieval fortifications and palaces in Wales by historic county.

Chart of the accepted (certain and possible) medieval fortifications and palaces in the Islands.