. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. ANCIENT EARTHWORKS â excavation ; for the castle was erected by Thomas Stanley, earl of Derby, in 1490, when he obtained the necessary licence from Henry ; Cantsfield (ioJ miles north-east of Lancaster).âBetween this village and that of Tunstall, on the right-hand side of the high road from Hornby to the north, is the handsome modern resi- dence called Thurland Castle. This was built about a century ago, being incorporated with the remains of the ancient castle which stood upon the spot. It is surrounded by a deep an
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. ANCIENT EARTHWORKS â excavation ; for the castle was erected by Thomas Stanley, earl of Derby, in 1490, when he obtained the necessary licence from Henry ; Cantsfield (ioJ miles north-east of Lancaster).âBetween this village and that of Tunstall, on the right-hand side of the high road from Hornby to the north, is the handsome modern resi- dence called Thurland Castle. This was built about a century ago, being incorporated with the remains of the ancient castle which stood upon the spot. It is surrounded by a deep and wide moat, which was the original water defence of the me- diaeval stronghold. The site is upon a small natural hummock in nearly level ground, at the foot of the north-western slope of a hill rising between the River Greeta and the Cant Beck; this hill, though higher in elevation, is not near enough to interfere with the position as a defensive one, and the castle effectively commands the whole of its surroundings. The low mound upon which the castle stands is flat upon the top and oval in shape; it is completely encircled by the deeply - excavated moat, which is filled with water, and measures about 25 ft. across from edge to edge.'"' Formidable moats of this class surrounded the following local fortresses not now extant, viz.:â Liverpool.âThe early thirteenth-century castle. Lathom (3 miles east-north-east of Ormskirk).âThe Old Lathom House, destroyed during the civil wars of the seventeenth SECTION A . A? B. SCALE OF FEET 100 200 300 I â..-1 I Cantsfield : Thurland Castle (Class H) Ancient Village sites protected by ramparts or fosses.âThe second or outer bailey of a mount and court stronghold (Class E) often contained within it the germ of a village or of a town, but the above definition describes a more simple form of defence, not attached to any feudal castle ; it also includes those earthworks and moats which were often made by monastic communiti
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