Great Canfield Castle
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Great Canfield Castle
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Great Canfield Castle lies in the small village of Great Canfield, 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Great Dunmow in Essex, England: grid reference TL595179. The lords of Canfield, the de Veres, built a motte and bailey castle on low ground near the River Roding, probably in the late 11th or early 12th century. The keep was constructed of timber. In the 1130s-1140s Aubrey de Vere II or his son Aubrey III the first Earl of Oxford may have diverted a tributary of the river to flood the ditch around the
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Castle in the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canfield_Castle
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2022-12-12T07:57:00Z
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