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Conger Hill: a motte and bailey castle

Scheduled monument

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Conger Hill is a motte and bailey castle in Bedfordshire, built during the Norman period after 1066. Its raised mound and defended enclosure controlled local territory for a lord who never stepped outside the reach of that small earthwork. The shape still stands, not as a ruin of stone but as a living boundary between ordinary ground and the moment when conquest first touched the soil.
The National Heritage List for England records Conger Hill: a motte and bailey castle 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.
Conger Hill is a motte and bailey castle, likely built in the 12th century, during the early Norman period, as part of the expansion of military and administrative control in England. It is remembered as an example of medieval fortification and is protected as a scheduled monument due to its historical and archaeological significance.

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