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Woodcroft Castle, Etton
History of Woodcroft Castle
Listed Building
Inhabited fragment of late C13 castle on a moated site, and with additions and alterations. What remains is the west side of the original building with a central gateway and a circular tower at the north end. There was probably a courtyard at the centre and the three other sides and the associated corner towers are no longer standing.
The Rev Dr Michael Hudson, Chaplain to Charles I took part in the defence of the castle against Parliamentary troops in 1649. The incident is illustrated in Bridge’s History of Northamptonshire Vol IV plate LXXX page 508.
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1126782?section=official-listing
See Mike Osborne, Defending Cambridgeshire p.68, for details about the battle here in the Second Civil War.
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