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Doug Rickard wrote:
I discounted the Chatel/Chateau connection as Bolbec Castle in the middle of
the village was not built until the 13c and the name of the Chatel Stream
appears to pre-date that. Of course there could have been a small castle or
fort thereabouts earlier but no archaeological evidence appears to have been
unearthed. Anyway the Bolbec Castle site has its own stream, a spring named
Sweet Alice.The 13th century would be an odd time to be building a castle de novo - unless, of course, you are Edward I in Wales or Scotland. Wikipedia (bless it!) dates the castle to The Anarchy in the 12th century, which is considerably more plausible.
John Briggs