What is recorded here

Berry Pomeroy Castle stands on a wooded hill above the South Hams, holding thirteen-century stone gates beside the unfinished rooms of a mid-sixteenth-century mansion. Ralph de la Pomeroy is said to have received the manor at the Conquest, while Protector Somerset later built the grand house after confiscating Sir Thomas Pomeroy’s property in 1549. Ivy and lofty trees now choke the ruins, and a decayed beech called the Wishing Tree still invites people to walk backwards around it three times before speaking a desire.

The National Heritage List for England records Berry Pomeroy Castle: a defended residence and Tudor mansion 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.

Berry Pomeroy Castle was built in the late 15th century by Sir William Body of Pomeroy, a member of a prominent Devon family. It is remembered for its distinctive Tudor architecture and its connection to the Pomeroy family, who held it for several generations, and for its later use as a prison during the English Civil War.

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