Hagley, Chirbury

Has been described as a Rejected Timber Castle (Other/Unknown)

There are uncertain remains

NameHagley, Chirbury
Alternative Names
Historic CountryShropshire
Modern AuthorityShropshire
1974 AuthorityShropshire
Civil ParishChirbury With Brompton

Under the printed H of Hagley, adjoining the orchard, is an unrecorded motte (Bird 1977)

Ridge and furrow is visible all round the mound on the AP taken in 1990 (Oblique aerial photograph: Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust. 1990)

Evaluated for MPP in 1990-1, Low score as one of 43 Motte castles; Low score as one of 91 Irregular Open Field Systems (Horton Wendy B. 1990/ 1991. MPP Evaluation File)

This mound was thought to be a possible motte castle. Although given a low score in the MPP desk based assessment phase, aerial photographs indicated a prominent landscape feature within a pasture field. It is a roughly circular knoll, approximately 40m across and 3m high, with exposed bedrock to its full height to the south. It would appear to be an entirely natural feature (Reid Malcolm L. 1999-Jul-27. MPP Non-Scheduling Alternative Action Report)

Noted but rejected as a motte by Spurgeon in 1966, and also rejected as a natural rocky outcrop by King in 1970. (Shropshire HER)

Gatehouse Comments

Hagley was the site of a very small farmstead rented from Chirbury Priory. There is nothing to suggest the tenant owed military service and the rent paid is not suggestive of a holding capable of funding even a small castle.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSO278975
Latitude52.5708808898926
Longitude-3.06610989570618
Eastings327850
Northings297530
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Books

  • Duckers, Peter and Anne, 2006, Castles of Shropshire (Stroud: Tempus) p. 77 (possible)
  • Jackson, M.J.,1988, Castles of Shropshire (Shrewsbury: Shropshire Libraries) p. 72 (reject)
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 435 (reject)
  • Bird, A.J., 1977, History on the Ground (University of Wales Press) p. 89
  • Eyton, R.W., 1860, Antiquities of Shropshire (London: John Russell Smith) Vol. 11 p. 62-3 (tenurial history) online copy

Journals

  • Hogg, A.H.A. and King, D.J.C., 1970, 'Castles in Wales and the Marches (Additions and corrections to lists published in 1963 and 1967)' Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol. 119 p. 119-124 (reject)
  • Spurgeon, C.J., 1966, 'The castles of Montgomeryshire' Montgomeryshire Collections Vol. 58 p. 1-59 (reject)

Other

  • Reid, M.L., 27-Jul-1999, Non-Scheduling Alternative Action Report Submission 19