Chartley Castle (Stowe-by-Chartley)

Locality
Coordinate	52.85399, -1.98659
Adm. div.	Staffordshire
Vicinity	Immediately NE of Stowe-by-Chartley; c. 8.5 km SW of Uttoxeter
Type	Building
Interest	Local tradition
Status	Extant
First Record

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Chartley Castle.

Chartley Castle ruins / Stephen Jones, 15 Jan. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-14. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

According to local tradition, Robin Hood on one or more occasions took refuge at Chartley Castle.

The castle, of the motte and bailey type, was built c. 1100 by Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester. It was rebuilt in 1220 by Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester, on whose death in 1232 it passed by marriage to William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby. The castle remained in the Ferrers family for more than 200 years and in 1453 passed to Walter Devereux. It was abandoned as a residence c, 1485, when Chartley Manor, a moated and battlemented timber mansion, was built nearby instead. Mary I was a prisoner there. The manor house was destroyed by fire in 1781. What is now known as Chartley Manor was in fact known as 'Chartley Manor Farm' until the 1980s. Substantial remains of the original castle survive, including a cylindrical keep, a curtain wall flanked by two half-round towers, a twin-towered gatehouse and an angled tower. Template:PlaceNamesItemQuery

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.14 (1901; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.14 (1882; surveyed 1881)
• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.14 (c. 1901; rev. c. 1900)
• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.14 (c. 1901; rev. c. 1900)
• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.14 (1924; rev. 1922)
• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.15 (1882; surveyed 1881)
• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.15 (1901; rev. 1900)
• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.15 (1924; rev. 1922)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.SW (1887; surveyed 1880–81)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.SW (1901; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.SW (1901; rev. 1900)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.SW (1925; rev. 1922)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.SE (1884; surveyed 1881)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.SE (1901; rev. 1900)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXI.SE (1925; rev. 1922).

Background

• Magical History Tour: Chartley Castle
• Wikipedia: Chartley Castle
• Wikipedia: Stowe-by-Chartley.

Notes

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  Chartley Castle ruins / Stephen Jones, 15 Jan. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  Chartley Castle ruins / Stephen Betteridge, 17 Mar. 2007, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  Chartley Castle / Plot, Robert. The Natural History of Stafford-shire (Oxford, 1686), plate near p. 93.

Staffordshire place-names 

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