What is recorded here

Castle Hill in Buckinghamshire holds a motte and bailey castle beside a Saxon burial, marking a place where martial power and death coexisted. The earthwork still rises west of Castle Hill House, preserving the shape of a defended home and the quiet final rest of someone who lived before or beside it. To stand near the hill is to meet two layers of human urgency at once: the need to control a landscape and the certainty that every life must end.

The National Heritage List for England records Castle Hill, a motte and bailey castle and Saxon burial 50m west of Castle Hill House 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 during the Norman period, likely in the 11th or 12th century, Castle Hill is remembered for its motte and bailey structure and its proximity to a Saxon burial site, highlighting the area's strategic and historical significance from both Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods.

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