Source/Archive record SCH517 - Castletown, near Farndon, Cheshire

Castletown has the most important concentration of medieval monuments in Cheshire. A small area can be drawn to include two shrunken medieval hamlets, a complex earthwork castle, a dramatic, defended green lane, and the best Norman chapel in the county. All these are held together in a framework of well-preserved medieval ridge and furrow and the other typical Cheshire landscape features of hedges, hedgerow trees and marl pits. This area can be increased to include another trackway leading to a traditional ford across the Dee and a complex of communally owned water meadows reflecting another aspect of the farming economy. Castletown has had a turbulent history and is now divided between the parishes of Caldecott and Church Shocklach. The monuments can be treated as an itinerary which can be followed on the map or even better on foot. They are described from north to south.