Clavering Castle
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Clavering Castle was in the village of Clavering in Essex on the bank of the River Stort, some 10 Km south-west of Bishop's Stortford (grid reference TL471320).
The site of this castle is unusual in that the earthworks almost certainly pre-date the Norman conquest. The first known Lord of Clavering was Robert Fitz Wymarc, a Frenchman who was one of Edward the Confessor's closest aides. The site is identified as one of the castles to which the French party at Edward the Confessor's court fled in 1052.
The site now consists of a number of grass-covered mounds.
[edit] References
- Clavering Castle
- Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
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