other resources for Users of The Gatehouse

As Gatehouse has developed over the years several pages of various data and opinion of interest to castle studies have been added. Feedback suggests the most important of these is a list of licences to crenellate. However there are other pages of interest and it is the intent to continue to add items.

• A comprehensive list of Licences to Crenellate of England and Wales, with details of each licence.
  • Some statistical analysis of the data in the list - mainly about the types of building.
  • Further analysis and comment - mainly about the people granted licences.
• Distribution maps.
• Classification of fortification types;
  • Information on some of the standard classification systems that are used for medieval fortifications.
  • The classification scheme used in Gatehouse.
• Location Information; This includes comments of map references, county boundary changes and placenames.
• Northumberland Fortifications; Some late medieval lists of fortifications in Northumberland are transcribed and detailed.
• Statistics; Some simple statistics such as number and county density of castles etc.
• Murage; Primary source data for royal support for town defences in all the realms of the medieval English Crown in the form of 4 lists linked to 2000+ pages of details.

There are also a few essays on various aspects of castle studies. The author is not someone who feels a need to reinvent the wheel and these essays are either about subjects rarely covered or have a different perspective from the usual writings.

• Defining 'the Castle'; an essay on what castles are and something on their development.
• Minor Castles; a short essay on minor timber castles and the knights who lived in them.
• Crenellating the Ego; an introductory essay on the psychological factors affecting castle forms and the biases in castle studies.
• Mounds of Earth; Some short comments on mounds of earth which may, or may not be, castles.