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Rochdale Castle

Medieval castle site in Greater Manchester, England

Field	Value
name	Rochdale Castle
location	Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England
coordinates
map_type	Greater Manchester
map_size	250
map_caption	Location in Greater Manchester
type	Motte-and-bailey castle
built	Early post Norman Conquest
condition	Destroyed; site built over

Rochdale Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Historically a part of Lancashire, it was built in the period shortly after the Norman Conquest of England.

In the 12th century, many charters refer to "the vill of the castle of Rachedal". A charter dated describes the castle as standing on rising ground commanding the valley of the Roche a location still known as Castle Hill. The castle was abandoned in the early 13th century. It was documented again in 1322.

In 1626 a Gabriel Tayor had a house on the site, known as Castle Hill, described as being on the "reputed site of a castle standing there, but now clean defaced". Buildings were later erected over the castle bailey and in the 19th century a house was built on the motte.

The motte is 100 ft at the base; the bailey is rectangular, lies to the south, and measures 120 ft by 100 ft. The defences consisted of an earth rampart and ditch.

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"Rochdale Castle". Pastscape.org.uk.
"Rochdale Castle". The Gatehouse - the comprehensive gazetteer of the medieval fortifications and castles of England and Wales.
(1909). "Memorials of Old Lancashire, Vol 2". Bemrose and Sons.
Cathcart King (1983), p. 247.
Newman (2006), p. 140.

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