A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



(Class G) 



Defined as ' Inclosures mostly rectangular, partaking of the form of 

 Clasj F, but protected by stronger defensive works, and in some instances provided 

 with outworks.' 



The works referred to under this class are in many instances sites of 

 feudal strongholds and of fortified manorial residences ; they include many of 

 the castles erected at a later date than the mount and court fortalices 

 (Class E) of Norman days. The island platform within the deep and broad 

 water moat was usually fortified by strong walls of masonry, instead of by the 

 earlier palisaded ramparts of Class E ; the elevated mount is absent. 

 Examples are : — 



Barnacre with Bonds (ioJ miles south of Lancaster). — Haifa mile east 

 of the town of Garstang stands a ruined tower, a remnant of the little castle 

 of Greenhalgh. The site of this fortress is upon a rounded knoll, about 

 125 ft. above sea level ; it rises not far away from the left bank of the River 

 Wyre, in a flat country. The ground falls away gently all round, and the 

 command is complete. 



The castle, an almost square building, was surrounded by a very deep 

 circular fosse ; this made so good a defence that in the Civil Wars Green- 

 halgh was one of the only two strongholds unreduced by the Parliamentarians 

 in this district in 1645. This fosse, which is now filled in with the excep- 

 tion of a small portion, is interesting because we know the date of its 



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