What is recorded here

Ashperton Castle is a scheduled monument in Herefordshire whose buried shape still breaches the soil as a circular cropmark beside the village. The ground has kept the castle long after ploughs and pathways tried to erase it, marking a place where human hands once bent the landscape to their will. What was built there has withdrawn from sight, but the earth still repeats the outline, holding the shape of a lost world beneath ordinary fields.

The National Heritage List for England records Ashperton Castle 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.

Ashperton Castle was built in the 13th century by the de Montalt family, a prominent noble lineage in the region. It is remembered for its strategic importance in the medieval period and as an example of early military architecture in the area.

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