Eaton Socon Castle

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Eaton Socon Castle was beside the River Ouse in the village of Eaton Socon which was originally a village in Bedfordshire but is now a district of St Neots in Cambridgeshire (grid reference TL174588).

This was a Norman double enclosure for which Saxon houses were destroyed, surrounded with moats filled with water diverted from the river. It was a castle in possession of the de Mandeville family but by 1156 was held by the Beauchamp family.

Only earthworks now remain.

[edit] References

  • Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
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Coordinates: 52.21492° N 0.28305° W

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