Castle built in 1370's, by Sir Thomas Hungerford, who was pardoned for crenellating without licence in 1383. Enclosure castle with round corner towers and square gate house. much ruined and only gatehouse, two towers and some curtain walling survive to any degree plus the chapel and priest's house. From the reign of William II to Edward III, Farleigh was held by the Montfort family and their original manor house was on the site of the castle. In 1369-70 the manor was bought by Sir Thomas de Hungerford who fortified the manor house and built the hall in 1380-90. His son, Sir Walter Hungerford, added the outer court in 1420-30 including the moat.

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Name	Farleigh Hungerford Castle
Alternative Names	Farle Mountford; Farley Hungerford
Historic County	Somerset
Civil Parish	Norton St Philip
Type	Masonry Castle
Confidence	Certain
Remains	Masonry ruins/remnants
Listed	Grade 1
Scheduled Ancient Monument	Yes
Ordnance Survey Reference	ST800576
Eastings	380090
Northing	157620
Images of England Reference	267186
PastScape Reference	207732
Historic Environment Record	23881

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Books

• Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p553-7
• Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of Wessex (Malvern) p74-6
• Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p221-2
• Dunning, Robert, 1995, Somerset Castles (Somerset Books) p57-8
• King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p443
• Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p230
• Pevsner, N., 1958, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol (London, Penguin) p190-91
• Oman, Charles W.C., 1926, Castles (1978 edn Beetham House: New York) p66-9
• Burrow, Edward J., 1924, Ancient Earthworks and Camps of Somerset (Cheltenham and London) p134-5
• Bothamley, 1911, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Somerset Vol2 p523
• Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
• Page, Wm. (ed), 1906, VCH Somerset Vol1 p362
• Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p57-62
• Jackson, J.E., 1879, A guide to Farleigh Hungerford (Chippenham) p9-48
• Turner, T.H. and Parker, J.H., 1859, Some account of Domestic Architecture in England (Oxford) Vol3 pt2 p339
• Anon, c. 1800, Picturesque Illustrations of the Antiquities of the Chapel of St. Anne with the castle of Farley Hungerford by a member of the Antiquarian family of Edinburgh
• Buck, Samuel and Nathenial, 1774, Buck’s Antiquities (London) Vol2 p258
• Grose, F., 1756, Antiquities of England and Wales Vol5 p25-8

Antiquarian

• William Camden, 1607, Britannia [http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/dorseteng.html#somerset21]
• Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p403-4
• Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol1 p137,138 http://www.archive.org/details/itineraryofjohnl01

Journals

• Miles, T J and Saunders, A D, 1975, 'The chantry priests house at Farleigh Hungerford Castle' Medieval Archaeology Vol19 p165-94 [downloadable via http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/resources.html?medarch]
• Wilcox, R., 1980, 'Excavations at Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset, 1973-76' Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Vol124 p87-109
• Wilcox, R., 1977, ‘Farleigh Hungerford, Farleigh Castle' Archaeological Excavations 1976(HMSO) p31
• Morley, B.M., 1977, ‘Farleigh Hungerford Castle, Somerset' Archaeological Journal Vol134 p356-8
• 1930, Archaeological Journal Vol87 p486-8
• Tipping, 1921, Country Life Vol50 p692-6
• Jackson, J.E., 1852, Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Vol3 p114-24

Guidebooks

• Kightly, C., 2006, Farleigh Hungerford Castle (London: English Heritage)
• 2001, Farleigh Hungerford Castle Somerset (London: English Heritage)
• Anon, 1986, Farleigh Hungerford Castle (London: English Heritage)
• Anon, 1983, Farleigh Hungerford Castle (HMSO)
• Chettle and Reynolds, 1946, Farleigh Hungerford Castle (HMSO)

Primary Sources

• Calendar of Patent Rolls (1381-85) p340