Cheveley Castle was a medieval fortified
manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals w ...
near
Cheveley
The village of Cheveley is situated in the county of Cambridgeshire and lies about four miles east-south-east of the market town of Newmarket. The population of the civil parish was 1,990 at the 2011 Census. Cheveley falls within the local g ...
,
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Counties of England, county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and North ...
, England.
Details
Cheveley Castle was built by Sir John Pulteney, a merchant-financier and
Lord Mayor of London
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, around 1341 on the outskirts of the village of Cheveley.
Cheveley: Manors and estate
', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire) (2002). Accessed: 20 May 2011. The castle was built in an
Edwardian
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style, with four circular towers, gatehouse and a bailey wall, on an elaborate moated site north-west of the village. It is the only castle of its type to have been built in Cambridgeshire, and was probably intended less for defence than as a high-status hunting lodge - in the 14th century, Cheveley was at the centre of a
deer park. The moat at Cheveley may have inspired other, similar moated designs across the eastern region.
[Creighton, p.195.]
The castle deteroriated after the early 17th-century, and today only limited masonry remains exist on the site, which is a scheduled monument.
Cheveley Castle
', Gatehouse website, accessed 20 May 2011.
See also
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Castles in Great Britain and Ireland
Castles have played an important military, economic and social role in Great Britain and Ireland since their introduction following the Norman invasion of England in 1066. Although a small number of castles had been built in England in the 10 ...
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List of castles in England
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Bibliography
*Creighton, Oliver Hamilton. (2005) ''Castles and Landscapes: Power, Community and Fortification in Medieval England.'' London: Equinox. .
References
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Castles in Cambridgeshire