Waldron Selwyns Wood

Has been described as a Questionable Timber Castle (Motte)

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

NameWaldron Selwyns Wood
Alternative NamesGreenvale Farm
Historic CountrySussex
Modern AuthorityEast Sussex
1974 AuthorityEast Sussex
Civil ParishHeathfield And Waldron

The site of a mound surrounded by an excavation in the form of a dry circular moat. This very unusual site comprises a small heart-shaped island surrounded by what appears to be a moat: the whole excavated out of the valley side and contiguous to a small stream. If it were not for the unusual shape the site would be classifiable as a homestead moat. As it is the possibility that is merely the result of clay or ironstone digging cannot be ignored. (East Sussex HER–re. OS field investigator F1 CFW 30-APR-70)

Gatehouse Comments

Suggested by King as a 'possible' (ie. doubtful) motte. Isolated from settlement and of no apparent strategic and manorial value. Presumably something about the site meant King felt he could not reject it entirely but clearly highly unlikely as a castle site.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceTQ559205
Latitude50.9630889892578
Longitude0.219539999961853
Eastings555960
Northings120530
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Books

  • Salter, Mike, 2000, The Castles of Sussex (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 69
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 475 (possible)