Ardley Castle

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Ardley Castle was a castle to the southwest of the village of Ardley, Oxfordshire, England (grid reference SP539273).

It is thought to have been an adulterine castle erected in the reign of King Stephen and demolished by order of Henry II after 1154. It now consists of an oval enclosure with a shallow ditch.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Fry, Plantagenet Somerset (1980). The David & Charles Book of Castles. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 179. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3. 


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