Site of Early Medieval Settlement at Warwick Castle
Description of this historic site
The site of a settlement dating to the early Medieval period at Warwick Castle. Documentary evidence records that the building of the castle led to four houses being demolished.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Description in Victoria County History.
2 When Warwick Castle was begun in 1068 its site encroached on part of the town, and four houses there belonging to the Abbot of Coventry were demolished to make way for it.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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