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Timeline of Keep Construction

A timeline of events detailing the years in which the great Norman keeps were constructed.

Stone Keeps (1070-1100)

Castle Name Date Location/ Notes
Colchester CastleBy 1100Essex
Tower of London1078London

Stone Keeps (1100 - 1150)

Castle Name Date Location / Notes
Ascot D'Oyly Castle1130Oxfordshire
Corfe Castle Dorset
Lydney Castle Gloucestershire
Ogmore Castle Glamorgan
Pevensey Castle Sussex
Rochester Castle Kent
Sherborne Castle1120Dorset

Stone Keeps (1150 - 1200)

Castle Name Date Location / Notes
Appleby Castleabt. 1170Westmoreland, Cumbria; Not open to the public
Bamburgh Castle1164Northumberland
Brough Castleabt. 1180Cumbria
Brougham Castle1164Cumbria
Bungay Castleabt. 1164Suffolk
Carlisle Castleabt. 1160Cumberland
Castle Risingabt. 1140Norfolk
Clun Castle Shropshire
Deddington Castle Oxfordshire
Dolwyddelan Castle Caernarvonshire
Dover Castleabt. 1180Kent
Goodrich Castle Herefordshire
Hedingham Castle Essex
Kenilworth Castle Warwickshire
Ludlow Castle Shropshire
Lydford Castle Devon
Middleham Castleabt. 1190Yorkshire
Newcastle Castleabt. 1171upon Tyne, Northumberland
Norham Castleabt. 1160Northumberland
Peveril Castleabt. 1176Derbyshire
Portchester Castle Hampshire
Prudhoe Castle Northumberland
Richmond Castle1171Yorkshire
Scarborough Castle1158Yorkshire

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