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Tickhill Town Defences

Has been described as a Possible Urban Defence

There are no visible remains

Name	Tickhill Town Defences
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Yorkshire
Modern Authority	Doncaster
1974 Authority	South Yorkshire
Civil Parish	Tickhill

Tickhill Castle has large outer enclosure which may have embraced town.

Gatehouse Comments

The medieval development of the town is complex with the original Saxon settlement of Dadeslie being somewhat to the north-west of the castle site around the virtually lost church at All Hallows Hill (SK590943). The town seems then to have gravitated towards the castle (or was there already a secondary Saxon centre here?) although All Hallows remained the parish church until c. 1200 when replace by St Mary's (which is outside the supposed town defences). If there were some urban defences at Tickhill then it may be these represented a defended or demarcated 'french' quarter rather than a true urban defence.As with some other Yorkshire towns (notably York but also nearby Doncaster) the 'gate' names of some of the town roads derives from the Viking 'gata' meaning street and are not references to lost gates or gatehouses.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

County Historic Environment Record

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OS Map Grid Reference	SK593928
Latitude	53.4292793273926
Longitude	-1.10918998718262
Eastings	459300
Northings	392800