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Shrawardine Motte and Bailey Castle
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The story
History of Shrawardine Motte and Bailey Castle
Shrawardine is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Montford, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is outside Shrewsbury. In 1931 the parish had a population of 176.
United Kingdom
- Built
- 1645
- Era
- Renaissance
- Country
- United Kingdom
- UNESCO
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- Coordinates
- 52.733, -2.889
In depth
The fuller history
The River Severn passes to the west of the village. On the other side of the river is a hamlet called Little Shrawardine. It lies within the civil parish of Alberbury with Cardeston.
Key dates
- 1615Henry Bromley (died 1615), Elizabethan and Jacobean politician, owned Shrawardine Castle where he died.
- 1645The castle, known as Castell Isabella by the Anglo-Normans, was built in the reign of Henry I of England, and dismantled during the English Civil War in 1645.
Historical summary drawn from Wikipedia. Read the full article.
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