Benington Castle

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Benington Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Benington, near Stevenage in Hertfordshire at grid reference TL296236. It is a scheduled ancient monument.^[1]

It was built as a motte and bailey fortress in the late 11th or early 12th century, founded by Peter de Valoignes. In 1136, Roger de Valoignes built a stone castle with a keep. In 1177, King Henry II ordered that the tower be demolished but in 1192 the castle was in use again. It was finally destroyed in 1212, after Robert Fitzwalter rebelled against King John. Only the foundations of the keep and some earthworks now remain. In 1832, George Proctor added a neo-Norman gatehouse, summerhouse and curtain wall.

References

↑ "1007844 - The National Hertitage List for England".

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Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3

Listed buildings in Hertfordshire

Grade I

Broxbourne	Eleanor Cross Wormleybury

Dacorum	Ashridge Management College Beechwood Park School and walls of walled garden Beechwood Park Berkhamsted School Old Building Church of St Mary, Hemel Hempstead

East Hertfordshire	Aston Bury Manor Balls Park Benington Castle (remains) Church of Saint Leonard, Bengeo Church of St Mary, Little Hormead Gatehouse to Hertford Castle Hunsdon House Much Hadham Palace Old Church of St James, Stanstead Abbotts Rye House Gatehouse Scott's Grotto Waytemore Castle (remains) Woodhall Park (Heath Mount School)

Hertsmere	Tyttenhanger House

North Hertfordshire	Royston Cave

St Albans	Abbey Church of St Alban Church of St Helen, Wheathampstead Church of St Michael's, St Albans Remains of Old Gorhambury House Rothamsted Manor Verulamium

Three Rivers	Moor Park and orangery/stable block

Welwyn Hatfield	Brocket Hall Hatfield House

Grade II*

Broxbourne	Rawdon House – Jacobean Wing (east) and Victorian Wing (north) Theobalds Park College

Dacorum	Church of St Peter, Great Berkhamsted Dean Incent's House Gaddesden Place The Golden Parsonge and garden walls Tring Park Mansion

East Hertfordshire	All Nations Christian College The Almshouses, Buntingford Bayfordbury Chapel at St Edmund's College, Ware Church of All Saints with St John, Hertford Church of St Andrew, Buckland Cromer Windmill Fanhams Hall Haileybury and Imperial Service College – Main Quadrangle and Memorial Hall Hanbury Manor Stanstead Hall

Hertsmere	Aldenham House and stable block Hilfield Castle Salisbury Hall Wrotham Park and stable block

North Hertfordshire	Church of St Mary Magdalene, Caldecote Hinxworth Place Knebworth House North Hertfordshire Masonic Lodge (The Cloisters) Princess Helena College St Paul's Walden Bury The Spirella Company of Great Britain Limited Building

St Albans	Church of St Leonard, Sandridge Church of St Nicholas, Harpenden Church of St Peter, St Albans Church of St Stephen, St Albans Gorhambury (New Gorhambury House) Holywell House Redbournbury Mill Westwick Cottage

Three Rivers	Hunton Park Langleybury Oxhey Chapel Redheath

Welwyn Hatfield	Shaw's Corner Welwyn Railway Viaduct

Other boroughs	Stevenage Watford

Grade II

Broxbourne	Broxbourne railway station Cheshunt Great House (remains)

Dacorum	Goldfield Mill Pendley Manor Rex Cinema Shendish House, walled garden and octagonal summerhouse Stocks House

East Hertfordshire	84, High Street, Buntingford (The Red House) Brent Pelham Windmill Buntingford Manor House Church of All Saints, Hockerill, Bishop's Stortford Christ Church, Ware Goldings Hertford Museum Tooke House Little Munden Primary School (South East Wing) Panshanger orangery, conservatory and stables

Hertsmere	Dyrham Park Country Club and stable block Shenley Hall Shenley Lodge Wall Hall

North Hertfordshire	Ashwell Bury Breachwood Green Mill British Schools Museum Letchworth Garden City railway station Minsden Chapel Putteridge Bury (Luton College of Higher Education) Stagenhoe Weston Windmill

St Albans	Colney Heath Mill St Albans School – south-west, north and hall blocks Sopwell House Sopwell Nunnery (ruins) Verulam House Ye Olde Fighting Cocks

Three Rivers	Croxley Green Windmill

Watford	Church of St John High Elms Manor Watford Grammar School for Boys Watford Palace Theatre

Welwyn Hatfield	The Brocket Arms Digswell House Tolmers Park

Coordinates: 51°53′45″N 0°07′05″W / 51.89589°N 0.11793°W / 51.89589; -0.11793

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