Bronsil Castle

Bronsil Castle was a fortified manor house about 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east of Eastnor in Herefordshire, England near Ledbury (grid reference SO749372).

Remains of Bronsil Castle. Efforts to consolidate the building material are taking place.

The first record of Bronsil Castle is around 1240 but no description of the structure at that time is given. In 1449 and again in 1460 Richard Beauchamp, Treasurer to Henry VI, was given licence to crenellate his house on the site.[1] In 1644 during the Civil War it was taken by the Roundheads and then burnt.

Today little remains except for remains of the tower and part of this collapsed in 1990.

References

"Herefordshire Through Time - Bronsil Castle". Herefordshire Council. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2010.

Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3

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[1] "Herefordshire Through Time - Bronsil Castle". Herefordshire Council. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2010.