October 25, 2020

Eynsford Catle

 Eynsford Castle

Date: 22-10-2020 
Location: Eynsford 
Current: English Heritage 


History :  https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/eynsford-castle/history/ 
Eynsford Castle is a rare survival of an early Norman ‘enclosure castle’, which remained unaltered by later building work. Begun by William de Eynsford I in the late 1080s , the castle was later the subject of a hotly disputed inheritance, which reached a climax in 1312 when one of the claimants broke in and vandalised it. Soon afterwards the castle was abandoned,



















No comments:

Post a Comment