The Gatehouse website record for Whichford Castle

In the civil parish of Whichford. In the historic county of Warwickshire (Modern Authority of Warwickshire, 1974 county of Warwickshire).

Earthwork and buried remains of a moated site believed to have been built by Reginald Mohun in the early C13. By the mid C14 the estate passed to the Stanleys, Earls of Derby, who held it for approximately 200 years. It was during this latter period that the moated site is thought to have fallen into disrepair and was abandoned. The moated site is roughly square in plan with external dimensions of approximately 100m by 90m. Moat ditches are dry, with the exception of part of the west arm, and some 4.6m wide. There are intermittent traces of an inner bank around the perimeter of the moated island which itself retains evidence of slight earthworks. An excavation in the western half of the island in the early 1950s uncovered the foundations of stone buildings, believed to date from the early C13, and fragments of painted glass, fine quality pottery and stone-lined drains. The remains of a curtain wall of large ironstone blocks was also located along the inner edge of the moat ditch.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SP30983457

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 335131
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 5268; 2342 '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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