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Today the remains consist of a mound with an outer bank and ditch and the foundations of a
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11th Century and rebuilt in stone in the mid 12th Century
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It is likely that the first castle was built after the
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Brimpsfield
Gloucestershire

51°48′50″N 2°5′10″W / 51.81389°N 2.08611°W / 51.81389; -2.08611
Motte Castle
Scheduled monument
Despenser War
castle
Brimpsfield
Gloucestershire
Gloucester
Cirencester

Norman invasion
King Edward II
destroyed
gatehouse
Castles in Great Britain and Ireland
List of castles in England
ISBN
0-7153-7976-3
"Brimpsfield Castle and the Giffards"
English castle
stub
expanding it
v
t
e
Categories
Castles in Gloucestershire

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