Maxey Castle was a medieval fortified
manor house castle in
Maxey,
Cambridgeshire, England.
Details
Maxey Castle was built around the 1370s by William Thorpe near the village of Maxey.
Maxey Castle
', Gatehouse website, accessed 21 May 2011. The castle had a double-moat, possibly designed as a flood defence, with a central
keep
A keep (from the Middle English ''kype'') is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word ''keep'', but usually consider it to refer to large towers in c ...
within a bailey wall with corner towers.
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Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and of Derby, and mother of king Henry VII lived here in the fifteenth century.
Today only the partial remains of the moats survive of the castle, which have scheduled monument status.][
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See also
* Castles in Great Britain and Ireland
* List of castles in England
References
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Castles in Cambridgeshire