What is recorded here

Castle Hill ringwork, Weedon Lois, is a sub-rectangular bank three to four metres high, built around a central area twenty-three metres across, and it still stands beside the village green and the church of St Peter and St Mary. Ghilo of Picquigni is recorded at Domesday as holding Weedon, and the ringwork may have been his defensive strongpoint in a cluster that also includes Culworth, Sulgrave and Canons Ashby. The ditch is faint on the east and north east, while the modern sunken roadway marks its line on the west and south, as if the village grew around the castle instead of replacing it.

The National Heritage List for England records Castle Hill ringwork, Weedon Lois 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 in the 12th century, likely by a local Norman lord, Castle Hill ringwork is remembered as a defensive earthwork that reflects the military strategies and feudal organization of the post-Conquest period in England.

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