Great Canfield Castle
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Great Canfield Castle was in the small village of Great Canfield 5 km south-west of Great Dunmow in Essex (grid reference TL595179).
A motte and bailey castle was built on low ground near the River Roding in the 1130s-1140s by the de Vere family, Earls of Oxford. The moat was fed by a diversion from the river and it was managed by a dam system.
Only the 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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