Ashford Castle; Ashford In The Water

Has been described as a Possible Fortified Manor House

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

NameAshford Castle; Ashford In The Water
Alternative Names
Historic CountryDerbyshire
Modern AuthorityDerbyshire
1974 AuthorityDerbyshire
Civil ParishAshford In The Water

Homestead moat, probably associated with the fortified house of the Nevilles (1408-1550). The site is tradionally that of Ashford Castle but there is no evidence to substantiate or refute this assertion. (PastScape)

N.N.E. of Ashford Church are the foundations of the mansion granted in 1319 to Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Kent (Bagshaw). The small moat at the back of the Bull's Head Inn is traditionally the site of Ashford Castle. (Listed under 'Castle Mounds with Attached Courts') (VCH). The so-called moat was, judging from the earth bank remaining, simply the site of the old foundations of a small house of the Nevilles (1408-1550), who built a fortified residence north of Ashford church (Norman). A homestead moat in fair condition but now being infilled by the R.D.C. (Field Investigators Comments-F1 FDC 08-JUN-66). (PastScape)

Gatehouse Comments

The site is too small to have been a castle but as a manor house of the important Neville family likely to have been dressed up with martial symbols, such as battlements.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSK195698
Latitude53.2248916625977
Longitude-1.70892000198364
Eastings419530
Northings369800
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Books

  • Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of the East Midlands (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 29 (slight)
  • Craven, Maxwell and Stanley, Michael, 2001, The Derbyshire Country House (Landmark Publishing) Vol. 1 p. 29-30
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 110 (possible)
  • Hart, C.R. 1981, The North Derbyshire Archaeological Survey to AD 1500 (Chesterfield: Derbyshire Archaeological Trust) p. 149-50
  • Norman, J., 1961, Ashford in the Water and its church (Ashrford)
  • Cox, J.C., 1905, 'Ancient Earthworks' in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Derbyshire Vol. 1 p. 375-6 online copy
  • Bagshaw, S., 1846, History, Gazetteer & Directory of Derbyshire with Burton on Trent p. 420 online copy

Journals

  • 1977, CBA Group 8: West Midlands newsletter Vol. 20 p. 92
  • Dr. Brushfield, 1900, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol. 6 p. 283 online copy

Other

  • Creighton, O.H., 1998, Castles and Landscapes: An Archaeological Survey of Yorkshire and the East Midlands (PhD Thesis University of Leicester) p. 330 online copy