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- Title
England's First Castle.
- Authors
Wardle, Terry
- Abstract
It has long been thought that the first castle ever built in England was in existence before September 1051, when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that 'the Frenchmen had built aene castel in Herefordshire'. Yet until now we have been no closer to unravelling the many mysteries surrounding this historic fortress. Its physical structure long lost to us, we can only try to reconstruct it and the circumstances of its creation from obscure 11th-century sources. But these are still sufficient to enable us to discern a good deal about a building which occupies a unique place in England's history.
- Subjects
HEREFORDSHIRE (England); ENGLAND; UNITED Kingdom; CASTLES; NORMANS; ANGLO-Saxon chronicle; REIGN of William I, Great Britain, 1066-1087
- Publication
History Today, 2009, Vol 59, Issue 6, p4
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article