Castle Tump was a castle in the village of Dymock in Gloucestershire, England.
The castle was built in either the 11th or more probably the early 12th century as a motte and bailey design.[1] The motte today is 14 m high, with the traces of the bailey to the south-east.[2]
During the Anarchy the castle was given to William de Braose, the son-in-law of the powerful Miles de Gloucester.[3] After the conflict the castle is believed to have probably been destroyed by Henry II as part of a wider programme of castle denigration in Gloucestershire during the 1150s.[4]
- ^ National Monuments Record website, accessed 19 December 2010; Fry, p.44.
- ^ National Monuments Record website, accessed 19 December 2010.
- ^ Renn, p.180.
- ^ Amt, p.44.