What is recorded here

Acton Burnell Castle stands in Shropshire as a scheduled monument, preserving a moated site with a chamber block and tithe barn. The water surrounding the stones suggests a place built to keep out intruders or perhaps to mark the wealth of its owners. The tithe barn hints at fields and villages that depended on the castle for survival. Together these structures reveal a local centre of power where daily life and defence were woven into one landscape.

The National Heritage List for England records Acton Burnell Castle, a moated site with chamber block and tithe barn as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Built by the Burnell family in the late 13th century, Acton Burnell Castle is remembered as the site where the 1285 Statute of Westminster was proclaimed, a key piece of English legal history.

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