Medieval fortified manor house, granted licence to crenellate about 1340 to Sir Nicholas Cantilupe, believed to have been destroyed by 1700, remains of castle incorporated in later farm buildings, excavated 1933, enclosure and fishponds still survive as earthworks.The entire area bounded by the earthworks is a SAM, the buldings (house and farm buildings) are all Grade 2 listed. Some earthworks were destroyed when the adjacent graveyard was extended in the mid C19. Given that the 1933 excavations were carried out over only two days, and the holes were backfilled at the end of each day it is doubtfull wether much creedance can be given to the conclusions reached given the paucity of remains revealed. The cellar of the apparently Georgian house much older, probably medieval in date, and may once have formed part of the castle. (My Thanks to Richard Skinner for some of this infomation.)

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Name	Greasley Castle
Alternative Names	Griseleia; Gryseleye
Historic County	Nottinghamshire
Civil Parish	Greasley
Type	Masonry Castle
Confidence	Certain
Remains	Masonry footings
Listed	Grade 2
Scheduled Ancient Monument	Yes
Ordnance Survey Reference	SK491470
Eastings	449100
Northing	347000
Images of England Reference	429409
PastScape Reference	315651
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Books

• Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of the East Midlands (Malvern) p85
• Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p327
• Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p203 [slight]
• King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p380
• Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1951, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire (London) p76
• Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
• Stevenson, W., 1906, VCH Nottinghamshire Vol1 p311
• Baron von Hube, Rodolph, 1901, Griseleia; Snotinghscire (Nottingham)
• Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p448-9
• Cornelius Brown, 1896, The History of Nottinghamshire p240
• Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p412

Journals

• Speight, Sarah, 2008-9, 'Castles as Past Culture 2: Adaptation and Identity in the Post-Life of Castles' Castles Studies Group Journal Vol22 p268-75
• Speight, Sarah, 2006, 'Castles and Settlement in Rural Nottinghamshire: Laxton, Egmanton and Greasley' Chateau Gaillard Vol22 p325-34
• Speight, Sarah, 1995, 'Four More Early Medieval 'Castles' Sites in Nottinghamshire' Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire Vol99 p70-1
• Green, Herbert, 1934, 'Greasley Castle' Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire Vol38 p34-53 [plan and ill.]
• Chalkley Gould, 1907, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol13 p62-3

Primary Sources

• Calendar of Patent Rolls (1338-40) p449
• Rickard, John, 2002, The Castle Community. The Personnel of English and Welsh Castles, 1272-1422 (Boydell Press) [lists sources for 1272-1422] p379