Stafford Town Defences

This is the largest surviving fragment of Stafford’s medieval town walls. It sits at the end of Eastgate Street where it joins North Walls.
The orientation of the wall in relation to Eastgate Street along a vertical concave groove at the nearer end suggest that this is the inner northern face of the East Gate itself.
Simon Huguet / Old Town Wall, Staffordhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Town_Wall,_Stafford_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1060908.jpg

Stafford, Staffordshire
OSGB – SJ 92 23
Monument Number 77479

Town defences.

913 Town founded.

1215 Timber was granted for town defences. Licence to crenellate was granted.

1224 Timber was granted for town defences.

1225 c: Built.

1642-1651 Civil War: Refortified.

1643 Raised.

1670’s In ruins.

13^th C Stone walling.

1958 Field Investigation.

1999 Evaluated by A. Brossler, Oxford Archaeological Unit.

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