The Gatehouse website record for Kentchurch Tump

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Bowlston Court Wood; Bowlstone Court Wood

In the civil parish of Kentchurch. In the historic county of Herefordshire (Modern Authority of Herefordshire, 1974 county of Hereford and Worcester).

Roughly oval mound 50ft x 43ft and 12ft high, with 3 platforms on top surrounded by a dry ditch except on the SW where there is a natural slope towards a brook. There are traces of a causeway to on the NE side with further earthworks to the south. SMR record reads "It was probably an early motte and bailey castle without stonework." PastScape record reads "Probable enclosed (possibly moated) homestead scheduled as a motte." On the bases of isolated location of no particular strategic value I would favour the PastScape record but in Marches it could possibly be a castle.
Phillips writes 'a fortified-site of late construction and representative of land tenure, held for part of a
knight’s fee'.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SO42162700

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 107648
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 3980 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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