- Rochdale Castle
Location map
Greater Manchester
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caption = Map showing the location of Rochdale Castle withinGreater Manchester .
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width = 175Rochdale Castle is a
motte-and-bailey castle in Castleton,Greater Manchester (gbmapping|SD89121286).cite web |title=Rochdale Castle |url= http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=45159 |publisher=Pastscape.org.uk |accessdate=2008-01-10] It was built in the early post-Norman Conquest period.cite web |title=Rochdale Castle |url=http://homepage.mac.com/philipdavis/English%20sites/3023.htm |publisher=The Gatehouse - the comprehensive gazetteer of the medieval fortifications and castles of England and Wales |accessdate=2008-03-18] The motte is nowrap|convert|100|ft|m| at the base; the bailey is rectangular and lies to the south and measures nowrap|convert|120|ft|m| by nowrap|convert|100|ft|m|. The defences consisted of an earthrampart and ditch. The castle was abandoned in the early 13th century. Buildings have been erected over the castle bailey and in the 19th century a house was built on the motte. [Newman (2006), p. 140.]ee also
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Castles in Greater Manchester References
Bibliography
*cite journal |first=Caron |last=Newman |date=2006 |title=Medieval Period Resource Assessment |journal=Archaeology North West |volume=8 |pages=115–144 |issn=0962-4201
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