Berkhamsted Castle [History Roadshow]
Today we visit Berkhamsted Castle on the History Roadshow. Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle. Now in ruins, It was once a mighty structure which was originally built to control the route between London and the midlands at the time of the Norman conquest of England.
Originally the castle would have been a wooden construction, but over the centuries this would have been upgraded to stone.
Robert Mortain who was half brother to William the Conqueror was probably responsible for the construction in 1066, as he later became the owner. The grounds were surrounded by protective earthworks and a deer park, a place for royalty to enjoy the hunt.
Political tensions were on the rise in England in the 13th century and a potential conflict between King John and an alliance of rebel barons opposed to his rule began to look likely. Prince Louis of France eventually forced a surrender of the garrison. Within a year though, forces loyal to Henry III retook the castle.
There is almost a thousand years of history on this site, from its humble beginnings back in 1066 and through its expansion over the following years to be seen as one of the great fortresses in Britain. Although it has been through its fair share of troubles and not only in battle but also in ownership this ancient monument deserves its place as one of the most outstanding motte and bailey castles in England to this day. Thanks to English Heritage you can now re-enact your own adventure at Berkhamsted Castle.
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Berkhamsted castle in Hertfordshire one of the earliest motte and bailey castles built after the Norman invasion of 1066.
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32 History Of Hertfordshire Berkhamsted Castle
The story of Berkhamsted Castle begins with the landing of Duke William of Normandy on the Sussex coast and King Harold’s defeat at the battle of Hastings. After Harold’s defeat William marched with his army through southern England, pillaging as he went. Crossing the Thames at Wallingford, he reached Berkhamsted, where he was met by the bishops of Worcester and Hereford, Earls Edwin and Morcar and the chief men of London, who swore allegiance to him and offered him the crown. William was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066.
He granted the Manor and Honour of Berkhamsted to his half-brother Robert, Count of Mortain, who set about building a typical motte and bailey castle, with a tower or keep set on an earthen mound surrounded by a defensive enclosure and two moats. This first castle was a timber structure. The castle was built, as one of the defensive castles guarding the route to London, at the bottom of a dry valley where there were springs to fill the moats.
Stone and flint replaced the timber structure in the 12th century when Thomas à Becket was Chancellor (1155-1164) The stone would have come from Totternhoe, near Dunstable, where a lime and stone works still exists today. In its heyday the castle had two complete moats and a ditch on the west side. On the top of the substantial motte are the foundations of the circular keep, 18m in diameter, within which is a well. The flint rubble core of the curtain wall survives for almost the entire circuit of the bailey. Some of the outer defences have also survived.
Throughout its history Berkhamsted Castle was a royal castle, a favoured residence of English monarchs and their families. Princes and princesses were born here and queens and earls died here and many of national importance resided here. Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine kept Court here in 1163 and Henry visited on other occasions too. The castle was one of his more comfortable residences.
King John spent some time here in 1216 shortly before his death, strengthening the defences against threatened revolts of the barons. His widowed queen was here when the castle surrendered to Prince Louis of France in December 1216 after two weeks’ siege. In 1226 Richard, Earl of Cornwall, was granted the honour and Manor of Berkhamsted and made the castle the administrative centre of the entire earldom of Cornwall. His son, Edmund, later founder of the College of the Bonhommes at Ashridge, was born here. The Black Prince hunted regularly in the deer park and he and his wife, Joan, the fair Maid of Kent, honeymooned at the castle. Later, after the battle of Poitiers in 1356 King John of France was imprisoned at the castle. The Black Prince was created Duke of Cornwall and Berkhamsted Castle has remained part of the Duchy of Cornwall to this day.
In 1389 Geoffrey Chaucer was appointed Clerk of the Works atBerkhamsted Castle and other royal properties. It is not known how much time he spent at Berkhamsted but he certainly knew John of Gaddesden, who lived in nearby Little Gaddesden, the model for his Doctor of Phisick in The Canterbury Tales.
In 1469 Edward IV granted the castle to his mother, Cicely, Duchess of York. After her death in 1495 the castle was no longer inhabited and gradually fell into ruins. It passed in turn to three of Henry VIII’s queens, Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour, until Edward VI granted it to his sister, Elizabeth. In 1580 she leased the Manor to Sir Edward Carey, Keeper of the Queen’s Jewels, who built himself Berkhamsted Place on the hill above the castle.
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Berkhamsted castle in Hertfordshire one of the earliest motte and bailey castles built after the Norman invasion of 1066.
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Berkhamsted Castle
Remains of an 11th-13th century motte and bailey stronghold.Built during the Norman Conquest of England to control a key route between London and the Midlands,the motte and bailey castle was surrounded by protective earthworks.Extended in the mid-12th century,the castle was besieged in 1216 during the civil war between King John and rebel barons.Subsequently used to hold royal prisoners,it was described as being in ruins by the middle of the 16th century.
Someries Castle
Ruined remains of fortified manor house.Building started in 1430,on the orders of Sir John Wenlock.This castle is strictly speaking a fortified manor house,and is regarded as one of the first brick buildings in England.Partially demolished in the 1700s,much of the original brickwork can still be seen in the gatehouse.
All that remains of the original house is a set of earthworks.
Grimsthorpe castle
Grimsthorpe has been the home of the de Eresby family since 1516 and the house is a fascinating mix of architectural periods and styles.
The oldest part is King John's Tower,which was built in the early 13th century by Gilbert de Gant,Earl of Lincoln.
Gant intended the tower as a lookout point for his castle at Folkingham.The state rooms are magnificent,but arguably the most memorable rooms on view are the last two.
The Chinese Drawing Room is a fantastically ornate chamber with a glittering mix of classical,Gothic,Rococo,and Chinese styles.
Across the hall is the Chapel,a quite stunning chamber with superb plasterwork on the walls and ceiling.
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Places to see in ( Berkhamsted - UK )
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Berkhamsted is a medium-sized historic market town on the western edge of Hertfordshire, England. The affluent commuter town is located in the small Bulbourne valley in the Chiltern Hills, 26 miles northwest of London. Berkhamsted is a civil parish, with a town council within the larger borough of Dacorum.
People have been living in the Berkhamsted area for over 5,000 years. There is evidence of flint working in the Neolithic period and metal working in the late Iron Age and Roman periods. The high street is on a pre-Roman route known by its Saxon name Akeman Street. The earliest written reference to Berkhamsted is in 970AD. Berkhamsted was recorded as a 'burbium' (an ancient borough) in the Domesday Book in 1086. The oldest known extant jettied timber-framed building in Great Britain, built 1277 - 1297, survives as a shop on the town's high street.
The most important event in the town's history was in December 1066. After William the Conqueror defeated King Harold's Anglo-Saxon army at the Battle of Hastings, the Anglo-Saxon leadership surrendered to the Norman encampment at Berkhamsted. The event was recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. From 1066 to 1495, Berkhamsted Castle was a favoured residence held by many English royals, including Henry II and Edward, the Black Prince; and historical figures such as Thomas Becket and Geoffrey Chaucer. After the castle was abandoned in 1495 the town went into decline, losing its borough status in the second half of the 17th century. Modern Berkhamsted began to expand following the construction of the canal and the railway in the 19th century.
Among those born in Berkhamsted was Colonel Daniel Axtell, who was the captain of the Parliamentary Guard at the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649. The towns literary connections include the 17th century hymnist and poet, William Cowper, the 18th century writer Maria Edgeworth, and the 20th century novelist Graham Greene. The town is the location of Berkhamsted School, a co-educational boarding independent school, founded in 1541 by John Incent, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral; and Ashlyns School a state school whose history began as the Foundling Hospital established in London by Thomas Coram, in 1742. The town is home to the Rex Cinema (a highly regarded independent cinema) and the British Film Institute's BFI National Archive at King's Hill, one of the largest film and television archives in the world, which was endowed by J. Paul Getty, Jr.
The next stage in the town's transport history occurred in 1834 when, after opposition from turnpike trusts and local landowners was resolved, the first Berkhamsted railway station was built by chief engineer Robert Stephenson. Though the castle was the first building to receive statutory protection from Parliament, the railway embankment obliterated the old castle barbican and adjacent earthworks. Most of the raw materials used to build the railway were transported via the canal.
The majority of Berkhamsted's eighty-five listed or scheduled historical sites are on in the high street and the medieval core of the town (a significant number of them contain timber frames). Four are scheduled, one is Grade I, seven are Grade II*, the remaining 75 are Grade II. he Berkhamsted Canadian totem pole sits adjacent to the canal, close to Castle Street Bridge. In the early 1960s, Roger Alsford, a great-grandson of the founder of the timber company, James Alsford (1841–1912), went to work at the Tahsis lumber mill on Vancouver Island.
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Myself and Candice explored another English Heritage site, this time in Hertfordshire at Berkhamsted Castle, a castle I have wanted to visit for quite some time. It didn't disappoint. Entry is free to both members and non members. The staff were very friendly and informative.
We spent a good couple of hours wandering around the ruins as the weather was fantastic and learnt a lot about the history of the castle and it's many famous royal former owners.
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Berkhamsted Castle is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.The castle was built to obtain control of a key route between London and the Midlands during the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century.Robert of Mortain, William the Conqueror's half brother, was probably responsible for managing its construction, after which he became the castle's owner.The castle was surrounded by protective earthworks and a deer park for hunting.
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The earliest recorded spelling of the town's name is the 10th century Anglo-Saxon Beorhðanstædæ. The first part may have originated from either the Old English words beorg, meaning hill, or berc or beorc, meaning birch; or from the older Old Celtic word Bearroc, meaning hilly place. The latter part, hamsted, derives from the Old English word for homestead. So the town's name could be either mean homestead amongst the hills or the homestead among the birches.
Through history spellings of the town's name have changed. Local historian Rev John Wolstenholme Cobb identified over 50 different versions of the town's name since the writing of the Domesday Book (such as: Berkstead, Berkampsted, Berkhampstead, Muche Barkhamstede, Berkhamsted Magna, Great Berkhamsteed and Berkhamstead.) The present spelling was adopted in 1937. The town's local nickname is Berko
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Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman artefacts show that the Berkhamsted area of the Bulbourne Valley has been settled for over 5,000 years. The discovery of a large number of worked flint chips provides Neolithic evidence of on-site flint knapping in the centre of Berkhamsted. Several settlements dating from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (about 4500–100 BC) have been discovered south of Berkhamsted. Three sections of a late Bronze Age to Iron Age (1200–100 BC) bank and ditch, sixteen feet (five metres) wide by seven to thirteen feet (two to four metres) high and known as Grim's Ditch, are found on the south side of the Bulbourne Valley.
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Berkhamsted Conservation Area
We are consulting on the draft Berkhamsted Conservation Area Appraisal which includes proposals for extending the boundaries of the conservation area and provides a list of locally listed buildings. The consultation closes on 9 November 2012. For more information see dacorum.gov.uk/conservationareas