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Bodiam Castle
nr Robertsbridge
East Sussex TN32 5UA
Tel: 01580 830436
Fax: 01580 830398

For opening times and admission prices please contact Bodiam Castle directly.

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National Trust
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
The National Trust is responsible for Bodiam Castle. This site provides a brief description and full visiting details.

1066 Country
www.1066country.com/countryside/attractions/bodiam/default.aspx
A website devoted to Bodiam and other visitor attractions in East Sussex.

Penshurst Place
www.penshurstplace.com
The Baron's Hall at Penshurst Place is a fantastic example of late-14th-century domestic architecture. Although larger than the hall at Bodiam Castle, it gives a good impression of what it might have looked like.

The Royal Armouries
www.armouries.org.uk
The museum has a superb collection of late-14th-century armour, the sort of stuff Sir Edward Dallingridge would have owned.

Books

Bodiam Castle by David Thackray (National Trust, 1991) £3.95
A detailed guidebook on the castle, with a good chapter on the Hundred Years War and Sir Edward Dallingridge.

Bodiam Castle by John Goodall (National Trust, 2001) £1.95
A more recent guidebook with some good drawings of what the castle might have looked like.

The Decline of the Castle by Michael Welman Thompson (Cambridge University Press, 1987) Out of print but available from some libraries.
Explains how castles in general fell out of fashion from the 14th century onwards. Discussion of Bodiam.

'Bodiam, Sussex: True castle or old soldier's dream house?' by DJ Turner, in W Mark Ormrod (ed) England in the Fourteenth Century, Proceedings of the 1985 Harlaxton Symposium (1986) £49.50
An interesting article in this academic journal on the debate about Bodiam Castle.

'The Rise of the Dallingridge Family' by Nigel Saul, Sussex Archaeological Collections 136 (1998). Available from large libraries.
The most up-to-date history of Sir Edward's ancestors. A short article in an academic journal.

English Castles by Reginald Allen Brown (3rd ed, David and Charles, 1976) £23.23
Still the best general book on castles.

The Knight in Medieval England, 1000-1400 by Peter Coss (Sutton Publishing, 1996) £19.95
Bypassing the chivalric and romantic ideals of knighthood, Coss examines the actual practice of knights and their role in society.

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