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Below are a list of written sources that provide useful information on castles. They are divided into three sections: General Sources, Sources solely concerned with Herefordshire and Historical Sources.
General Sources:
The Castle in Medieval England and Wales - Colin Platt, Secker & Warburg, 1982.
The Decline of the Castle - M. W. Thompson, Cambridge University Press, 1987.
English Castles - R. Allen Brown, Book Club Associates, 1977.
Medieval Masons - Malcolm Hislop, Shire Publications, 2000.
English Heritage - Norman England - Trevor Rowley, B.T. Batsford, 1997.
The Medieval Castle in England and Wlaes - N.J.G. Pounds, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
The Rise of the Castle - M.W. Thompson, Cambridge University press, 1991.
Life in a Castle of Medieval England - J.Burke, Batsford, 1978.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names - Eilert Ekwall, Oxford University Press, 1970.
Timber Castles - Hyam and Baker (esp. pgs 43-45 for Ewyas Harold Castle).
Sources concerned with Herefordshire:
Herefordshire Countryside Treasures - J. H. Turner, 1981, Hereford and Worcester County Council.
Castles & Moated Sites of Herefordshire - Ron Shoesmith, Logaston Press, 1996.
Castles of Herefordshire and Worcestershire - Mike Salter, Folly Publications, 1989.
The Castles of Herefordshire and Their Lords - Rev. Charles J. Robinson, The Scolar Press Ltd.
Herefordshire Place-Names - Bruce Coplestone-Crow, BAR British Series 214, 1989.
The Buildings of England - Herefordshire - Nikolaus Pevsner, Penguin books Ltd, 1963.
Brampton Bryan Castle 1066-1309 - P.M Remfry, SCS, 1995.
Clifford Castle 1066-1299 - P.M. Remfry, SCS, 1994.
Kington and Huntington Castles 1066-1416 - P.M. Remfry, SCS, 1997.
Longtown Castle 1048-1241 - P.M. Remfry, SCS, 1997.
The Mortimers of Wigmore, P.M. Remfry, SCS, 1995.
Richards Castle 1048-1219 - P.M. Remfry, SCS 1997.
Wilton Castle 1066-1644 - P.M.Remfry, SCS 1998.
An Anatomy of a Castle: The Weobley Castle Project, - George Nash & George Children, Logaston Press, 2003.
Historical Sources:
Domesday Book - Herefordshire - Edited by John Morris, Frank & Caroline Thorn, Phillimore, 1983.
Leland Itinerary - John Leland, 1538.
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle - Trans and Edited by Michael Swanton, J. M. Dent Publishers, 1996.
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