Tadcaster Town Defences
Has been described as a Possible Urban Defence
There are no visible remains
Name | Tadcaster Town Defences |
Alternative Names | |
Historic Country | Yorkshire |
Modern Authority | North Yorkshire |
1974 Authority | North Yorkshire |
Civil Parish | Tadcaster |
Traces of Tadcaster medieval town defences are recorded in C18 and C19, Camden referring to a ditch surrounding the town as a part of the defences of the Roman town. There are now no extant remains. (PastScape)
Hachuring of a bank or terrace shown but not described (which together with property boundaries forms an apparently continuous earthwork on the west side of Tadcaster with a corner formed in the south-west) (OS 6" map 1846-9). Speight refers to 'entrenchments' extending along the lane south-west of 'John Smith's brewery' by St. Joseph's Lane past Castle Hill on the north side where some traces existed. He associates them with the Battle of Tadcaster Bridge in 1642 but Camden refers to a ditch surrounding the town as part of the defences of the Roman town. The town defences at Tadcaster have now disappeared but may have dated from early Norman or a pre-conquest period, the motte probably having been superimposed. (PastScape)
fossarum quibus ambiebatur vestigia (Camden)
Not scheduled
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid Reference | SE485435 |
Latitude | 53.8855018615723 |
Longitude | -1.26223003864288 |
Eastings | 448590 |
Northings | 443500 |