Site of Weddington Castle at Castle Road
A Medieval moat on the 1890 Ordnance Survey map near Exhall
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A view of Weddington Castle, Nuneaton
Warwickshire County Council
Description of this historic site
The site of Weddington Castle which was built during the Post Medieval period. It was situated west of Castle Road, Weddington, but is now destroyed.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Weddington Castle (apparently standing in 1947) was probably on the site of the capital mansion-house mentioned in a suit of 1566. It may have been built by Thomas, Marquis of Dorset, who enclosed the whole manor of Weddington in 1491.
2 Area now built over and the castle destroyed.
3 Letter with information about the site.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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