What is recorded here

Castle Hedingham, Essex is a castle, fort or tower in Braintree, England. Perhaps its stones still hold the shape of hands that built them, though no name remains to credit the labour. Maybe the ground remembers a collision of bones and breath, not the polished dates written elsewhere. Imagine a woman walking past at dusk, feeling the vibration of that forgotten collision through her feet.

A named place photographed at this map point in Braintree.

Built by the de Hastingfield family in the 12th century, Castle Hedingham is important as one of the best-preserved motte-and-bailey castles in England and a key example of Norman military architecture in Essex.