What is recorded here

Cockroad Wood Castle stands as a motte and bailey ruin near Wincanton, built after the Norman conquest of England in 1066 to help control the surrounding area. Its earthworks still rise seven and a half metres above a shallow ditch, linking two baileys along a north-south ridge where wooden bridges once crossed. Walter of Douai held the land by 1086, yet no written record names the castle itself, leaving its purpose buried in soil rather than ink.

Cockroad Wood Castle is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of Somerset. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

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