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Statistical Information

Chart of accepted sites by county

Charts of the accepted medieval fortifications and palaces of England and Wales listed by historic counties.

Great care must always be taken with such statisical data since much of the source data has a degree of error which, when combined in such statistic can produce very large errors.

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Chart of the accepted (certain and possible) medieval fortifications and palaces in England by historic county.
This is a sortable table;
click heading to sort
Timber
Only
Castle
Timber/
Masonry
Castle
New
Masonry
Castle
Total
Castle
Siege
Work
PalaceFortified
Manor
House
Crenellated
Town House
Tower
Houses
Pele
Tower
BastleArtillery
Forts
Fortified
Abbeys and
Churches
Urban
Defences
Fortified
Bridges
Chain
Tower
Linear
Defence
Uncertain
Bedfordshire204226031301000041000
Berkshire1131152111100000122000
Buckinghamshire2130241121300000030000
Cambridgeshire155020011700000030000
Cheshire149225061421200151000
Cornwall1364230823041022230300
   Cornwall: mainland1263210823041012230300
   Cornwall: Isles of Scilly1012000000010000000
Cumberland149831042212311612411630041
Derbyshire146121041403000141000
Devon221174021131011116372210
Dorset674171102100007150000
County Palatinate of Durham74920110210715110124101
Essex197430014181000101120001
Gloucestershire19164391143000100264002
Hampshire1085233429000027180200
   Hampshire: mainland1075223418000013060200
   Hampshire: Isle of Wight0101011000014120000
Herefordshire595561203113600000171001
Hertfordshire96015112901000150000
Huntingdonshire9101014500000110000
Kent119103023341120020461210
Lancashire1818270115191500111000
   Lancashire: South161623011417900111000
   Lancashire: North of the Sands202400102600000000
Leicestershire108119021401000120000
Lincolnshire3087451102506000771000
London City02130140161001031001
Middlesex5005032120001000100
Norfolk12732201236310011261220
Northamptonshire2292330132800100210000
   Northamptonshire: main2092310122300000010000
   Northamptonshire: Soke of Peterborough200201500100200000
Northumberland1421114625171621763621227102051
   Northumberland: main1318940111615715535962492051
   Northumberland: North Durham1225031152035300000
   Northumberland: Berwick upon Tweed010111000101010000
Nottinghamshire1251181131303100030000
Oxfordshire9114244162111000072000
Rutland320501200000010000
Shropshire902961253935321002163004
Somerset15124312192301102172001
Stafffordshire1183220112601000141000
Suffolk1883290640201013180021
Surrey852150271101000040000
Sussex1311428221292200104100000
Warwickshire188430172511001031002
Westmorland8341501120134320230010
Wiltshire10113243191601000170000
Worcestershire1334203131700000232000
Yorkshire80311512612912452018069192211
   Yorkshire: Ainsty and York City220403620100221100
   Yorkshire: East Riding1331170112831005350100
   Yorkshire: North Riding301312551639013501260010
   Yorkshire: West Riding35132500951061200261000
   Yorkshire: uncertain location000000000000000001
TOTAL7123721571241415018684216939350016010021136151717
Chart of the accepted (certain and possible) medieval fortifications and palaces in Wales by historic county.
This is a sortable table;
click heading to sort
Timber
Only
Castle
Timber/
Masonry
Castle
New
Masonry
Castle
Total
Castle
Siege
Work
PalaceFortified
Manor
House
Crenellated
Town House
Tower
House
Pele
Tower
BastleArtillery
Forts
Fortified
Abbeys and
Churches
Urban
Defences
Fortified
Bridges
Chain
Tower
Linear
Defence
Uncertain
Anglesey601704000000120001
Brecknockshire211854424400200030002
Caernarfonshire8752005001100021001
Cardiganshire36514212100100050002
Carmarthenshire301134403300200070004
Denbighshire12251902100000021003
Flintshire10552013400100020000
Glamorgan39251579261904200390007
Merioneth14131806100000010004
Monmouthshire3017115804600300091100
Montgomeryshire36534401200000040000
Pembrokeshire4212862079031232230002
Radnorshire241934611200000050002
TOTAL308127685037485208243265431028
Chart of the accepted (certain and possible) medieval fortifications and palaces in the Islands.
This is a sortable table;
click heading to sort
Timber
Only
Castle
Timber/
Masonry
Castle
New
Masonry
Castle
Total
Castle
Siege
Work
PalaceFortified
Manor
House
Crenellated
Town House
Tower
House
Pele
Tower
BastleArtillery
Forts
Fortified
Abbeys and
Churches
Urban
Defences
Fortified
Bridges
Chain
Tower
Linear
Defence
Uncertain
Alderney000000100002000000
Guernsey112400000002010000
Jersey102300100003000000
Sark000000000001000000
Man320501000104000002
TOTAL53412012001012010002
The data on this page last revised on 21 November 2014.


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