Castle, now ruined. Circa 1307 for Lord Lestrange of Knockin. Dressed red sandstone with rubblestone core and red and grey sandstone ashlar dressings. All that remains is the former north-east corner with the remains of a corner stair turret and two sides of the inner retaining wall of the rectangular moat. There is a small rectangular window in the remains of the northern wall and the jamb of a probable large chamfered cross window with glazing-bar holes in the remains of the eastern wall, possibly the indication of a former first floor hall (cf. Acton Burnell). A moulded trefoil-headed doorway with panelled spandrels leads to the remains of the stair turret which still retains the first few steps of a stone newel stair. There are other chamfered reveals and set backs in the remains of the stair turret to the north. There is a stone inscribed "Repaired by the Rt./Honble John Hume Egerton/ VISCOUNT ALFORD/OCTr.1849/[Henry?] Sheraton Steward." There is a block of dressed grey sandstone on the ground to the east of the remains with a carved shield. Moat retaining wall. Dressed red sandstone with some rubblestone. L-plan. Approximately 46m long and 1.5m high forming the inner retaining wall of the section of the rectangular moat to the east of the remains of Myddle Castle and half of that to the south. The section of wall to the south incorporates various fragments of dressed and carved stone probably from the castle buildings including a block of chamfered stone and what looks like part of a window or door head. Late C20 farmbuildings and a yard with a concrete block wall have been built over the moat up against the eastern section of retaining wall. Lord Lestrange (John le Srange) was given a licence to crenellate in 1307. The Castle probably ceased to be occupied c.1500 as it was described as "veri ruinus" by John Leland when he visited Myddle c.1540. Old photographs (Hey) show the tower standing higher than at present (January 1986) but a former ashlar circular or octagonal battlemented top stage and a part to the north collapsed in 1976. It has been suggested that some of this (particularly the top stage) was a romantic embellishment added during the repair work of 1849,

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Name	Myddle Castle
Alternative Names	Middle; Medle
Historic County	Shropshire
Civil Parish	Myddle And Broughton
Type	Masonry Castle Fortified Manor House
Confidence	Certain
Remains	Masonry footings
Listed	Grade 2
Scheduled Ancient Monument	Yes
Ordnance Survey Reference	SJ469235
Eastings	346900
Northing	323570
Images of England Reference	260089
PastScape Reference	68554
Historic Environment Record	01127

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Books

• Duckers, Peter and Anne, 2006, Castles of Shropshire (Stroud: Tempus) p119-21
• Salter, Mike, 2001 (2edn), The Castles and Moated Mansions of Shropshire (Malvern) p63
• Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p564
• Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p219 [slight]
• Jackson, M.J.,1988, Castles of Shropshire (Shrewsbury: Shropshire Libraries) p42-3
• King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p427
• Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p263
• David G. Hey, 1974, An English Rural Community: Myddle Under the Tudors and Stuarts, Leicester University Press p25-26 and plate 6
• Pevsner, N., 1958, The Buildings of England: Shropshire (London, Penguin) p215
• Oman, Charles W.C., 1926, Castles (1978 edn Beetham House: New York) p134
• Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
• Wall [after Downham], 1908, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Shropshire Vol1 p403-4
• Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p144
• Gough, 1875, Antiquities and Memoirs of Myddle (Shrewsbury) p27-9
• Stackhouse-Acton, Frances, 1868, The Castles and Old Mansions of Shropshire (Shrewsbury)
• Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p405
• Pearson, W.,1824, Views of the Antiquities of Salop p83-85, illus
• Richard Gough, 1701, The History of Myddle (D. Hey (ed),1981, Penguin) p54-58

Antiquarian

• Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p397
• Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol5 p13 http://www.archive.org/details/itineraryofjohnl05lelauoft

Journals

• Anon, 2005, 'Myddle Castle' CSG Newsletter Vol7 Issue1 p7
• Watson, M.D., 1987, 'Gazetteer of Moated Sites in Shropshire' Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol65 p6
• Hogg, A.H.A. and King, D.J.C., 1967, 'Masonry castles in Wales and the Marches: a list' Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol116 p71-132
• Auden, H.M., Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol26 p296
• Burson, W., Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol17 p212-3
• 1895, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol7 px-xi
• 1894, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol6 p211-3
• 1892, Shropshire Notes and Queries (reprinted from The Shrewsbury Chronicle) Vol1 p113-4
• Eyton, R.W., 1887, 'The castles of Shropshire' Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol10 p30

Primary Sources

• Calendar of Patent Rolls (1307-13) p62

Unpublished

• Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission, 1983, Scheduled Monument Report on SAM 11986