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Bodiam Castle is a quadrangular fortress constructed in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, featuring a distinctive square plan with corner towers and surrounded by a water-filled moat that forms part of its defensive scheme. The castle's setting retains evidence of medieval landscape management, including a millpond and the earthwork remains of associated crofts and cultivation plots that reflect the manorial economy supporting the fortification. The site was adapted during the Second World War with the addition of a pillbox, indicating its strategic significance during potential invasion. The castle represents a well-preserved example of late fourteenth-century military architecture in its Sussex setting, notable for the survival of both its medieval structures and the wider archaeological landscape that documents its historical context.
A quadrangular castle and its landscaped setting, an associated millpond, medieval crofts and cultivation earthworks, and a World War II pillbox at Bodiam is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013554. View the official record →
Bodiam Castle is a quadrangular fortress constructed in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, featuring a distinctive square plan with corner towers and surrounded by a water-filled moat that forms part of its defensive scheme. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1013554.
A quadrangular castle and its landscaped setting, an associated millpond, medieval crofts and cultivation earthworks, and a World War II pillbox at Bodiam is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1013554.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including A medieval pleasaunce 30m south east of Court Lodge: part of the landscaped setting of Bodiam Castle (0.4 km), Romano-British site S of Bodiam Bridge (0.5 km), Medieval moated site, Peters Green (0.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of A quadrangular castle and its landscaped setting, an associated millpond, medieval crofts and cultivation earthworks, and a World War II pillbox at Bodiam's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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A quadrangular castle and its landscaped setting, an associated millpond, medieval crofts and cultivation earthworks, and a World War II pillbox at Bodiam stands on Wealden Group, bedrock that formed in the Barremian. The rock here is sandstone and siltstone, interbedded.