
	Where results make sense

Topic: Cadbury Castle

Related Topics

Quantock Hills

Somerset, England

GWR 4073 Class

Viroconium

Tintagel Castle

Caerleon

Sites and places associated with Arthurian legend

Camelot

Somerset Levels

Glastonbury Tor

Camulodunum

Glastonbury

Yeovil

Sir Ector

King Arthur

In the News (Mon 30 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Archaeology Wordsmith
		Castles developed with the feudal system which installed a societal classification in which land and other privileges were granted in return for military service.
		Castle architecture was revised with low walls which could be defended all around by artillery, the guns mounted on bastions and redans.
		DEFINITION: An elevated mound of earth, part of the motte-and-bailey castle, which was crowned with a timber palisade and surrounded by a defensive ditch that also separated the motte from a palisaded outer compound, called the bailey.
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?category=&where=headword&terms=castle (961 words)

	Castles with Ghosts
		The castle is associated with a ghostly bridal party.
		The castle is said to be haunted by a Gray Lady.
		The upper floor of the castle is said to be haunted by the daughter of the 14th Earl.
	www.castles-of-britain.com /castle94.htm (1254 words)

	Glastonbury \| History and traditions \| Cadbury Castle
		Cadbury is an isolated hill of limestone and sandstone.
		Cadbury hill has its version of the cave-legend, which, in fact, can be documented earlier than any other, as far back as the sixteenth century.
		Cadbury Castle artist's reconstruction of the gatehouse at the south-west entry in Arthur's time, with part of the rampart and timber breastwork which encircled the hill.
	www.isleofavalon.co.uk /history/h-cadbury.html (2402 words)

	Cadbury Castle
		The castle - which covers an area of 18 acres - is a hillfort that had periods of broken occupation and use from the Iron Age to the reign of Ethelred II (Ethelred the Unready).
		It is possible that the castle served as a focal point for the leaders of the tribe, and may have been as close to what is now a capital.
		In legend Cadbury Castle is the site of Camelot, and one of the hills under which Arthur and his men are said to sleep awaiting the allotted time to fight for the nation once again.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /england/somerset/somerset2.html (500 words)

	Castles of South West England
		Castle Drogo is the highest National Trust run Castle in the country, at at 900 feet above sea level, overlooking the Teign Gorge on the edge of Dartmoor.
		Sidbury Castle is actually a large and impressive kite shaped Iron Age hill-fort to the southwest of the village of Sidbury near Sidmouth.
		Woodbury Castle is hill-top fort, on the crest of a ridge two kilometres east of Woodbury village near Budleigh Salterton in Devon.
	www.castlesofengland.co.uk /southwest.php (486 words)

	SOUTH SOMERSET - share the secret (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Reached from the village of South Cadbury, Cadbury Castle is a spectacular Iron Age hill fort (reputedly King Arthur's 'Camelot') and is one of the most important
		Cadbury has been occupied throughout history from a Neolithic settlement some 2000 years before Christ, through Iron Age fortification and Roman occupation until Ethelred the Unready reinforced the stronghold in anticipation of the Danish Invasion.
		Cadbury, strategically placed to defend south-west Britain, could well have been the base from which Arthur led his troops to the final victory of Mons Badonis whether that was fought in Dorset, near Bath, or in north Wiltshire.
	www.country-breaks.com /cadbury.htm (703 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cadbury and Littleton hills, outliers of Pen Hill in Compton Pauncefoot, dominated the parish and influenced the pattern of fields and lanes.
		Cadbury Castle's southern slopes were also cultivated as Castle field and part of Littleton hill as Little field.
		South Cadbury, seized by the Crown because of a false oath by Reginald, was restored to her in 1334 and she may have married again as Hugh or Henry Brokesworth presented to the living in 1340 and held the half fee in 1346.
	www.somersetpast.net /southcadbury.html (7152 words)

	Cadbury
		Cadbury is an Anglo-Saxon placename - not surprising since there is further evidence that this site was refortified once again as a Wessex burh (a garrison against Danish raids), about 300 years after the time in question.
		Cadbury castle is not a castle in the traditional sense.
		The hill is the castle, fortified by 4 earthwork walls.
	www.witchesway.net /links/lost/lost6.html (808 words)

	Arthurian Infopedia - South Cadbury Castle, potential Camelot?
		The association of South Cadbury with the fabled court of King Arthur was made by two prominent Tudor antiquarians, John Leland and William Camden.
		South Cadbury Hill was a heavily fortified hill-top settlement which yielded strong evidence of sixth-century activity.
		Other post-holes suggest interior divisions and an antechamber which convinced Alcock to suggest that the model for the Cadbury hall was not the Germanic feasting hall but rather the aisled houses of villa complexes in later Roman Britain.
	www.celtic-twilight.com /camelot/infopedia/s/south_cadbury.htm (804 words)

	Tourist Information: Castles - White Horse Farm. Self-catering, rural barn cottage accomodation in beautiful Dorest ...
		Cadbury castle is the site of a hill fort and is a scheduled ancient monument, situated on private land.
		The 17th century Castle was built as a hunting lodge and has been the seat of the Weld family since 1641.
		In 1929 the Castle was tragically ravaged by fire and it lay in ruins until its restoration by English Heritage.
	www.whitehorsefarm.co.uk /holiday/holiday/cottage/accomodation/Castles (452 words)

	Cadbury
		An eighteen acre enclosure is ringed with four lines of earthwork defenses rising to a plateau where a village stood until captured and cleared by the Romans.
		Indeed, while the Camelot of romance never existed, Cadbury may have been the headquarters of one of the Arthurian prototypes or at least a king from his time period.
		Cadbury was evidently re-inhabited in the late 5th to early 6th centuries.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/c/cadbury.html (342 words)

	Sites of the King Arthur Myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Caerleon in Wales, Cadbury Castle south of Glastonbury in Somerset, and Winchester in Hampshire.
		Cadbury Castle is a Neolithic and Iron Age Hill Fort that was attacked by the Romans and then left abandoned for centuries.
		Cadbury Castle is considered by many to be the most likely location for Camelot.
	www.sfu.ca /archaeology/museum/kingarth/5camea.html (320 words)

	Glossary of Castle Terms
		Castles also went through some very bad periods in the last 300 years, so that there are very few that can be seen in their original state, apart from those that were restored (Windsor, for example) or never destroyed (Tower of London) or never bothered with (Appleby?).
		Most castles, except the ones still used by the military, or the ones that are still lived in (however uncomfortably), have no use any more, if it weren't for their attractiveness to visitors and seekers of the picturesque.
		CASTLES OF THE WORLD This marvellous site was destroyed by a hacker a couple of years ago and is a shadow of its former self (but is gradually being reconstructed).
	www.britcastles.com /casgloss.htm (2876 words)

	Camelot International: Britain's Heritage and History
		Tintagel Castle, built in 1145 on the sight of previous occupation dating back to the 4th century is set on a ruin strewn wonderfully romantic headland situated on the indented northern coastline of Cornwall and perched dizzily above the crashing surf of the Atlantic.
		Castle Dore is an iron age earthwork which has been connected with the romance of King Mark of Cornwall, Tristram and Iseult.
		The popular view is that the battle was fought beside the River Cam in the shadow of Cadbury Castle (Camelot) and that the mortally wounded Arthur was carried along "King Arthurs Causeway" to Avalon (Glastonbury).
	www.camelotintl.com /legend/tour.html (991 words)

	One argument against the possibility of a historical Arthur is the lack of any physical remainder of the numerous ...
		Cadbury castle sits on a plane in Cornwall in the South of England.
		Such a site for a castle would be fought for by the local warlords, and would most likely be inhabited by the most powerful of the local warlords.
		In this castle 5th and 6th century pottery from the Mediterranean was found, this is indicative of a wealthy family living there at that time.
	www.msu.edu /user/spottswh/eng454/archaeology.html (552 words)

	Britannia King Arthur: Cadbury Castle
		This was once a noted town or castle, set on a real peak of a hill, and with marvellously strong natural defences.....
		Furthermore, the incomparable size of the Cadbury fort has led to the suggestion that a High-King such as Arthur would be the most likely resident.
		However, Cadbury lay within the Kingdom of Dumnonia, and there seems little reason to doubt that it was the capital of the Dumnonian Kings.
	www.britannia.com /history/arthur/cadbury.html (705 words)

	Cadbury Castle ~ The Land of Arthur \| King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cadbury Castle ~ The Land of Arthur
		He wrote: 'At the very south end of the church of South-Cadbyri standeth Camallate, sometime a famous town or castle...
		Whether the association of Cadbury is a genuine one has been hotly disputed for a number of years.
	www.kingarthursknights.com /theland/cadbury.asp (363 words)

	King Arthur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gervase states that Arthur and his knights regularly hunt along an ancient trackway between Cadbury Castle and Glastonbury (which is still known as King Arthur's Causeway [3]), and that he with his company of riders may be seen by moonlight in the forests of Britain or Brittany or Savoy.
		Loomis alludes to a Scottish mention in the 16th century, and that many of these beliefs were still current in the 19th century at Cadbury Castle, and in several parts of France.
		An image of Arthur and his knights attacking a castle was carved into an archivolt over the north doorway of Modena Cathedral in Italy sometime between 1099 and 1120.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Arthur (3359 words)

	Ahnentafel Report
		The subsequent Norman holder of Castle Cary was Walter de Douai, son of Urso of Douai near Lille in Normandy.
		Castle Cary or Kari in 1086 was a prosperous manor of 2,400 acres of plowland, of which 960 were held by the lord, 100 acres of meadow and woodland measuring one league by one half.
		Castle Kari was four miles north of Cadbury Castle, the legendary Camelot of the of King Arthur.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~jac/cmc/at01/at01_055.htm (860 words)

	Mystic Sites: Cadbury Castle
		The South Cadbury Shield is decorated with concentric ribs and about 6,000 small bosses and was an object of status or ritual, rather than something its owner would have carried into battle.
		There is a walk that you can do on the eve of the summer solstice around Cadbury Castle and neighbouring St Thomas a Becket's Church, where you may see King Arthur leading his ghostly band of knights in a wild hunt.
		Cadbury Castle is then reached by following a minor road to a car park at the base of the hill.
	beehive.thisisbristol.com /default.asp?WCI=SiteHome&ID=7612&PageID=40596 (629 words)

	Clan Campbell Chiefs
		The Duke and Duchess of Argyll at Inveraray Castle
		At the wedding, Eleanor Cadbury who is the cousin of the family who founded the Cadbury chocolate empire, wore a stunning cream dress and overcoat, while holding a matching bouquet of cream roses.
		While the Campbell ancestral home of Inveraray Castle, will be the couple's family home, they will be living and working in London but spending more of their personal time in Scotland.
	www.ccsna.org /mcm.htm (1401 words)

	Cadbury Surname Origin & Family History
		Cadbury Surname in UK Cadbury Surname in US There is more to Cadbury family history than the origin of the surname:
		The origin of the surname Cadbury may give hints about one line of your family history from many hundreds of years ago such as where your family lived, what they did, or how they looked.
		The AWT is an ever-growing database of lineage linked individuals and families to identify previous research on the Cadbury family line.
	www.searchforancestors.com /surnames/origin/c/cadbury.php (868 words)

	King Arthur, Southern England Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cadbury Castle Cadbury Castle is near the town of South Cadbury in Somerset.
		Cadbury Castle is a good example of an Arthurian-age hillfort.
		Portchester Castle Portchester Castle is in Hampshire and is on Portsmouth Harbor.
	www.legendofkingarthur.co.uk /southern-england-king-arthur.htm (358 words)

	Somerset Gateway UK. Towns & Villages
		A Norman castle of some importance was built around the end of the 11th or the beginning of the 12th century; beseiged twice in Stephen's reign in 1138 and 1148 and then destroyed (probably) sometime after 1153.
		The name Castle Cary suggests that a town was founded hear by the owner of the Castle.
		Castle Cary was the home of Parson Woodforde, whose diary, published as Diary of a Country Parson, is a classic of 18th-century country life.
	www.somersetgateway.com /places/towns/placesc.htm (1774 words)

	TimeRef - Medieval History Timelines
		Cadbury Castle has been occupied on and off since around 5,000 years ago.
		Archaeological digs at Cadbury have found remains from the Iron Age including pottery, arrow heads and axes.
		The castle appears to have been abandoned until the time of the mythical King Arthur when wood and stone ramparts were constructed.
	www.btinternet.com /~timeref/cadbury.htm (147 words)

	Camelot Page
		Camelot was the most famous castle in the medieval legends of King Arthur, and where, according to legend, he reigned over Briton before the Saxon conquest.
		Cadbury Castle is an earthwork fort of the Iron Age, which looks over the Vale of Avalon to Glastonbury.
		Nearby is the River Cam, and the village of Queen Camel (once known as Camel) The antiquary John Leland, in the reign of Henry VIII speaks of local people who refer to the fort as "Camalat" and as the home of Arthur.
	members.tripod.com /QueenGuinivere/Page5.htm (393 words)

	Camelot, King Arthur's Court
		John Leland identifies as being Cadbury Castle in his work of 1542 as the "real" Camelot.
		Cadbury was the head quarters for a 5th century king.
		Sites that claim to be Camelot include Cadbury Castle, Castle Killibury, Caerleon, Winchester, the Roman city of Viroconium in Shropshire and Rough Castle, a Roman Fort near Camelon.
	www.legendofkingarthur.co.uk /arthurian-places/camelot.htm (299 words)

	hillforts of wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cadbury Castle to Cerne Abbas and Maiden Castle and hillforts to the Dorset Coast
		The old almshouses are situated by the entrance to the abbey.The ruined castle was built in the 12th century and was destroyed in the Civil war but the present castle on the other side of the river was built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594 and is open to the public in the summer.
		Lamberts Castle and the smaller Coney Castle the route leads to the sea at Charmouth and follows the coastal footpath through Lyme Regis to cross the River axe at Seaton.
	www.celticway.org /hillfortsofwessex.htm (4925 words)

	Towns near North Cadbury on AboutBritain.com
		South Cadbury lies at the foot of Cadbury Castle, the iron age hillfort reputedly King Arthur's "Camelot".
		It is said that on midsummer's eve the hill turns clear as glass and inside can be seen Arthur and his knights of the round table.
		Castle Cary is a vibrant market town, with a winding main street, many of the buildings are of the local golden stone and some are still thatched.
	www.aboutbritain.com /TownsNearNorthCadbury.asp (503 words)

	Lodgehill Farm Hotel - Church Tour: Cadbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cadbury church is about 15 minutes drive from Lodgehill Farm.
		Cadbury is a small and very old church, dedicated to St. Michael and All Angels.
		It is closely associated with the nearby so-called "castle" or Roman origin, though unfortunately now the only remains of the castle are a hill-top site with a good view and some signposts.
	dialspace.dial.pipex.com /lodgehill/ch_cadbury.htm (414 words)

	Details, Somerset HER
		An undefended initial IA phase (Cadbury 5) was succeeded by Cadbury 6, enclosed by a timber-laced clay and rubble rampart (A).
		Cadbury 9A, marking the appearance of Durotrigian material, overlies rampart C. 9B lies on the tail of rampart D1 and incorporated into D2.
		The final Iron Age phase, Cadbury 9C, is assoc- iated with the final refurbishing of the rampart D3 in c60 AD.
	webapp1.somerset.gov.uk /her/details.asp?prn=54552 (459 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)