Knowledge (XXG)

Castle Camps

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Robert Gernon holds 2 hides in CAMPS, and Thurstan from him. Land for 6 ploughs. In lordship 2; 8 villagers with 8 smallholders have 4 ploughs. 6 slaves; meadow for 2 ploughs; woodland, 12 pigs. Value £4; when acquired 30s; before 1066 40s. Leofsi held this land under Earl Harold , and could withdraw
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was attached to the castle. The brick tower remained until 1779 when it was blown down by a high wind. The manor house was rebuilt in the 16th century, but fell down in 1738. Part of the back wall was then used in the construction of a smaller farmhouse, called Castle Farm. Most of this wall still
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In CAMPS Aubrey de Vere holds 2½ hides. Land for 11 ploughs. In lordship, 1 hide and 1 virgate; 4 ploughs there. 17 villagers with 4 smallholders have 7 ploughs. 6 slaves; meadow for 3 ploughs; woodland for 500 pigs; from village grazing 8s. Total value £15, when acquired £12; before 1066 as
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and was notable for its small bailey and the size of its motte, whose flat top covered just over an acre. There are records of work being carried out in the castle between 1265 and 1331, and it has been suggested that this could refer to the construction of the new bailey.
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No warfare was recorded here; though justices of the peace were driven away by force of arms in 1526, during quarrels between a dowager countess and the new earl.
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Wulfwin, King Edward's thane, held this manor. Norman holds ½ hide of this land from Aubrey. Land for 1 plough; it is there. The value is and always was 40s.
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castle constructed, although the castle could date from the twelfth century. In the later twelfth century it would have been the largest
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which still exist above ground is a piece of rubble in the yard to the south of the present farmhouse and Earthworks. It is a
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stands. About this time a sketch was made of the Castle by S H Buck, dated 1731.
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Ordnance Survey 1" to the mile map 148 Saffron Walden 1968 edition.
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Shipley, N.R., 'The History of a Manor: Castle Campes, 1580-1629',
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The highest point in the parish is at Wigmore Pond at 415' ASL.
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Index

Norman Castle
Castle Camps
Cambridgeshire
Saxon
King Edward the Confessor
Norman invasion
William the Conqueror
Aubrey de Vere I
Earls of Oxford
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
Lord Mayor of London
Thomas Sutton
Charterhouse
Domesday Book
Aubrey de Vere I
Motte-and-bailey
fortress
Cambridgeshire
tower
Norman Castle
Scheduled Monument
Castles in Great Britain and Ireland
List of castles in England
The Hundred Parishes
Castle Camps Village Website
Castle Camps Village
Extract from Magna Britannia
52°03′22″N 0°22′21″E / 52.056107°N 0.372603°E / 52.056107; 0.372603
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Castles in Cambridgeshire

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