Faringdon Castle

Faringdon Castle was a Norman castle standing just outside the market town of Faringdon in the English county of Berkshire (administratively now Oxfordshire), some 17 km to the northeast of Swindon (grid reference SU297957).

This castle was built, on a site now known as Folly Hill, by

Stephen, and after four days, the castellan, Brian De Soulis, surrendered. The castle was destroyed within a year or two.^[4]

In the 1930s, a 104 ft brick tower known as Faringdon Folly was built, on the site by

The story of the castle and Brian de Soulis figures in the last Cadfael Chronicles by

Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael's Penance

References

^ ^a ^b Ford, David Nash (2011), Faringdon Castle, David Nash Ford Publishing, retrieved 5 June 2011
^ Quoted in Liddiard 2005, p. 81
^ King 1983, p. 11
^ Fry 1980