Barnack Castle
Has been described as a Questionable Masonry Castle
There are no visible remains
| Name | Barnack Castle |
| Alternative Names | Bomb castle close |
| Historic Country | Northamptonshire and the Soke of Peterborough |
| Modern Authority | Peterborough; City of |
| 1974 Authority | Cambridgeshire |
| Civil Parish | Barnack |
Walls and mounds of an early castle at the lower end of Barnack village cut through during construction of the railway station. Blocks of ashlar masonry in garden and it was possible to trace foundation 1892. No traces now. (City of Peterborough HER)
It is worth recording in "N. N. & Q." that at the lower end of Barnack village, where the present railway station stands, the walls and mounds of an early castle were cut through when the line was formed. The field to the south of the road then bearing the name of "Bomb castle close." Since the opening of the line the station-master has dug up worked Ashlar stones from its walls in his garden. Nor is it, now that the site is known, impossible to yet trace marks of its lines under the grass. The small rivulet evidently ran along its boundary. No record of any such castle having existed here exists, so far as at present known. In Domesday "Bondi" is recorded to have held it in the Confessor's time, which name "Bondi" seems the Norman scribes' "cant" way of describing the murdered Saxon Earl Waltheof; for the same "Bondi" is there recorded to have held also Earl's Barton.
The information as to this site was derived from Mr. Thompson, surveyor of Barnack and Derby, himself a native of this place; and connected with the making of this railway line. It was also corroborated by the station-master as to his finds of the worked stones. (Irvine 1892)
Not scheduled
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | TF082053 |
| Latitude | 52.6350288391113 |
| Longitude | -0.402150005102158 |
| Eastings | 508230 |
| Northings | 305340 |
