Stories and Romantic Episodes, 1876 which supports the view that there was a fort here before the conquest, Beaudesert being the name being given to it by the Norman family that settled here meaning "the beautiful waste".
Stories and Romantic Episodes, 1876 which would support the view that there was a fort here before the conquest, however recent writers have refuted this. W. Cooper, Records of Beaudesert, 1931 Beaudesert being the name being given to it by the Norman family that settled here meaning "the beautiful waste".