Apley Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Appeleye

In the civil parish of Hadley. In the historic county of Shropshire (Modern Authority of Telford and Wrekin, 1974 county of Shropshire).

Stable block dating to the late C18, incorporating the remains of a C14 manor house, for which a licence to crenellate was granted in 1327 to Sir Alan Charlton. The house was extended and remodelled in the late C16/early C17 and converted to stables in 1792-4. The moated C14 house comprised a central hall flanked by a service wing to the left and a solar wing with chapel to the right.

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.

The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.

Nothing visible remains.

listed building

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The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SJ65501317

PastScape Defra ELS number; 72267 County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number; 03835

Books

Duckers, Peter and Anne, 2006, Castles of Shropshire (Stroud: Tempus) p20-22
Salter, Mike, 2001 (2edn), The Castles and Moated Mansions of Shropshire (Malvern) p22
Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p506
Salter, Mike, 1993, Midlands Castles (Birmingham) p22
Jackson, M.J.,1988, Castles of Shropshire (Shrewsbury: Shropshire Libraries) p2-4, 69
Braugh, G.C., 1985, 'Wellington: Manors and other estates' VCH Shropshire p215-21 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18141
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p433
Pevsner, N., 1958, The Buildings of England: Shropshire (London) p59
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p125
Leach, F., 1891, County Seats of Shropshire p55-63
Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p408

Journal Articles

Gainster, D.R.M. Margeson, S. and Hurley, M., 1990, Medieval Archaeology Vol34 p208-9 [downloadable via http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/resources.html?medarch]
Watson, M.D., 1987, 'Gazetteer of Moated Sites in Shropshire' Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol65 p5
1980, Moated Sites Research Group report Vol7 p51
Peel, 1949-50, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol53 p259-62
1931-32, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol46 p11
1896, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol8 p229-31
1881, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol3 p169-70

Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)

Calendar of Patent Rolls (1327-30) p145

Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)

Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p398

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Apley Castle

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SJ65501317

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